Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut products
Many snack products made with peanut butter have been recalled due to a Salmonella outbreak. In my area the most popular come from Kelloggs:
* Austin® Quality Foods Cheese Crackers with Peanut Butter - all sizes
* Austin® Quality Foods Cheese & Peanut ButterSandwich Crackers – all sizes
* Austin® Quality Foods Mega Stuffed Cheese Crackers with Peanut Butter – all sizes
* Austin® Quality Foods PB & J Cracker Sandwiches – all sizes
* Austin® Quality FoodsSuper Snack Pack Sandwich Crackers
* Austin® Quality Foods Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all sizes
* Austin® Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter – all sizes
* Austin® Quality Foods Reduced Fat Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers
* Austin® Quality Foods Reduced Fat Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers
* Austin® Quality FoodsCookie/Cracker Pack
* Austin® Quality FoodsVariety Pack
* Keebler® Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all sizes
* Keebler® Toast & PB’n J Flavored Sandwich Crackers – all sizes
* Keebler® Toast & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all sizes
* Famous Amos® Peanut Butter Cookies (2- and 3-ounce)
* Keebler® Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies (2.5-ounce)
Other brands recalled include Hyvee, King Nut, Perry’s Ice Cream and Little Debbie snack crackers. Full lists of recalled products can be found here.
From the FDA:
January 17, 2009: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting a very active and dynamic investigation into the source of the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. At this time, the FDA has traced one likely source of Salmonella Typhimurium contamination to a plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which manufactures both peanut butter that is institutionally served in such settings as long-term care facilities and cafeterias, and peanut paste—a concentrated product consisting of ground, roasted peanuts—that is distributed to food manufacturers to be used as an ingredient in many products including cakes, cookies, crackers, candies, cereal and ice cream.
The FDA has notified PCA that product samples originating from its Blakely, Ga., processing plant have been tested and found positive for Salmonella by laboratories in the states of Minnesota, Georgia and Connecticut. The state of Minnesota reported to FDA that its samples of King Nut peanut butter are a genetic match to the strain of Salmonella that has caused illnesses in the state and around the country. King Nut is a distributor of PCA product.
As a result of these updated test results, on January 16, PCA expanded its voluntary recall to include all peanut butter produced on or after August 8, 2008, and all peanut paste produced on or after September 26, 2008, in its Blakely, Ga., plant because of potential Salmonella contamination. The product being recalled is sold by PCA in bulk packaging in containers ranging in size from five to 1700 pounds. The peanut paste is sold in sizes ranging from 35-pound containers to product sold by the tanker container. These products are not sold directly to consumers. PCA has stopped all production at its Blakely, Ga., plant as the FDA continues its investigation into the source of the Salmonella contamination.
Based on this information, and on the current state of the investigation, the FDA recommends that consumers avoid eating products that have been recalled and discard them.
Because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating peanut butter-containing products until further information becomes available about which products may be affected. Efforts to specifically identify those products are ongoing.
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January 18th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
We have managed to generate an additional list of products that contain Peanut Butter as an ingredient. Feel free to have a look:
http://blog.foodessentials.com/outbreak-alert/list-peanut-butter-containing-products/
Hope that helps?