FDA advises against eating any product with peanut butter
Any product containing peanut butter, such as cookies, crackers, cereal, and ice cream, should not be eaten at the current time until it can be cleared in the ongoing nationwide salmonella outbreak, the FDA has advised. The recommendation does not apply to name-brand jars of peanut butter available in grocery stores, which have not been implicated in the rash of infections.
The FDA’s investigation is focusing on Peanut Corporation of America’s processing plant in Blakely, Ga., which has halted operations after health authorities in Minnesota and Connecticut detected salmonella in peanut butter produced there. The products were sent to 85 manufacturers and distributors, some of which have initiated voluntary recalls of a variety of foods believed to contain peanut butter or paste from Peanut Corporation of America.
Read about “Salmonella Food Poisoning” from Bay Area Medical Information
via FDA, January 19, 2009
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