To be prudent, avoid eating commercially prepared cakes, cookies, crackers, candies, cereal and ice cream that contain peanut butter, peanut paste or ground peanuts.
While these snack products are potentially contaminated, supermarket peanut butter is not. Meaning it is still considered safe to serve your kids a PB&J sandwich.
The Food and Drug Administration urges consumers to “postpone” eating peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter until further information becomes available about which products may be affected with the strain of salmonella typhimurium which has sickened 474 people nationwide and is implicated in six deaths.
The peanut butter under investigation is potentially in snack products, not supermarket peanut butter. It is linked to the King Nut and Parnell’s Pride label sold in institutional-sized tubs to to schools, hospitals and nursing homes. This brand is not sold at retail and it not available in supermarkets.
Click here for the FDA’s most up-to-date list of affected product.
Thanks for posting this information. Another good bit of news related to a bad situation…I received an automatic call from Costco today. I do purchase peanut-butter-containing snack crackers (in bulk) from Costco, and I don’t know whether the retailer called all people holding membership cards or just those who purchased such snacks. In other words, might Costco keep track of my purchases via each SKU I’ve purchased? No matter; I thought it was a great service that Costco provided me. Now that’s what I call real service!
This is really worrisome,I’d read that institional sized products were involved but didn’t realise that snack products were as well. I will really be checking labels
carefully.Thanks for posting the heads up
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