The problem is that the affected products aren't sold in one or two pound jars that are sold in supermarkets. The contaminated peanut butter from the Peanut Corporation of America factory in Georgia was sold in bulk packages that weighed between five and 1700 pounds. Contaminated peanut paste was sold in sizes ranging from 35 pounds to whole tanker containers. That's a lot of contaminated peanut butter!
Until the FDA salmonella hunters can determine who got which tanker of what, they don't want anyone eating manufactured products with peanut butter. Sorry!
Because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating commercially-prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter until further information becomes available about which products may be affected. Efforts to specifically identify those products are ongoing.At this time, there is no indication that any national name brand jars of peanut butter sold in retail stores are linked to the PCA recall. As the investigation continues over the weekend, and into next week, the FDA will be able to update the advice based on new sampling and distribution information.
It's not like most of this stuff goes bad quickly, so just keep it in the pantry for a few weeks until you know it's safe.
For the moment, you definitely want to throw out the following products:
Recall includes all sell-by dates for the following products, sold in various
packaging and quantities and having a Hy-Vee price label attached. Sold in
all Hy-Vee stores in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota
and Minnesota.
Assorted Truffle Fudge
Lunchbox Peanut Butter Cookies
Lunchbox Reese’s Pieces Cookies
Monster Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Reese’s Pieces Cookies
People Chow Party Mix
Kellogg products impacted by the recall were produced on or after July 1,
2008, including:
Austin® Quality Foods Cheese Crackers with Peanut Butter - all
sizes
Austin® Quality Foods Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich 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 Foods Super 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 Foods Cookie/Cracker Pack
Austin® Quality Foods Variety Pack
Famous Amos® Peanut Butter Cookies (2- and 3-ounce)
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
Keebler® Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies (2.5-ounce)
All King Nut and Parnell’s Pride peanut butter of all types distributed
by King Nut with item numbers that begin with 038445 on the individual tub
and if still in a case, all lot codes that begin in “8”
Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Toasty sandwich crackers — all sizes.
Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Cheese sandwich crackers — all sizes.
Perry’s is recalling ice cream products containing peanut butter sauce,
which have been recalled by PCA.
Products affected by the recall are as follows:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Perry's Premium Peanut Butter Cup Craze Ice Cream 1/2 Pint
Perry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.5 QT, 1.75 QT AND 3 GL
Perry's Peanut Butter Chip Frozen Yogurt 1.5 QT, 1.75 QT and 3 GL
Perry's Peanut Butter Sundae Crunch Ice Cream Bar Bulk 24 pack
Perry's Premium Peanut Butter Fudge Ice Cream 1.5 QT and 1.75 QT
Perry's Perfectly Churned Light Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.5 QT and 1.75
QT
Perry's Light Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Shurfine Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Wegmans Chocolate Nutty Cone Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Wegmans Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT and Pint
Wegmans Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Wegmans Peanut Butter Sundae Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Wegmans Peanut Butter Pretzel Ice Cream 1.75 QT
Wegmans Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Bar 6 pack
Wegmans Peanut Butter Candy Sundae Cup Ice Cream 4 pack
Wegmans Peanut Butter Sundae Cup Ice Cream 4 pack
Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak [FDA]
Voluntary Recalls
Frequently-Asked Questions and Answers about the Recent Salmonella Outbreak
@TacoThrower_GitEmSteveDave: Ha! I think I ate something like 6 jars.
]]>@Cupajo: Our troop starts selling cookies this Wednesday and this issue has come up. Our cookies are made by abc Bakers. They have issued a statement on their website saying that their distributor of peanut butter has been audited by the FDA and is safe.
www.abcsmartcookies.com
]]>And yet the crackers have stayed in the machine. Go figure.
]]>No need to look out for peanut products in the pantry when there are none ...and I live in Georgia.
]]>I won't be touching Reese's anything for a good long while!
]]>@Ninjanice: I just saw that Little Debbie has now recalled some peanut butter products. [news.yahoo.com]
]]>@ElmerKabobbing: Oh, and the other one wasn't lettuce, it was spinach from California.
]]>@ElmerKabobbing: Actually, tomatoes were mistakenly blamed for that outbreak. It was really caused by chili peppers from Mexico.
]]>Doesn't salmonella get killed in the baking process? I understand if the contaminated peanut butter is the filling between cookies or crackers, but if it's mixed in with the flour and eggs and hydrogenated vegetable oils, as in a peanut butter cookie? How does it survive the ovens?
]]>I had what seemed to be food poisoning last week. I narrowed it down to two things: a portabello burger at a local restaurant and Little Debbie peanut butter cookie stick things. Everything else I ate last week was eaten by someone else I know who didn't get sick. I'm not sure if it was the Little Debbie snacks or not, but I threw them out anyhow.
]]>If it starts affecting Tastycakes, I'm in big trouble.
]]>You can't assume that they are the same. A lot of times regular-sized candy has one recipe and fun-sized or holiday shaped candy has another. It's something people with food allergies are totally aware of because we obsess over labels, but most people don't realize how different similar stuff can be.
]]>Don't eat Safeway bakery peanut butter cookies until this all gets figured out!
]]>I ate a Hershey's Reese's Peanut Butter Cup today, but that's definitely not on the list.
]]>A person would be better off without all this processed & prepackaged stuff anyway.
]]>So im just going to eat peanut butter.
All of this is bad for the peanut butter industry - I think they need a government bailout.
]]>/trying to be funny but, ugh. I'm SICK AND TIRED of our food being contaminated these last few years. Do I need to grow all of my own food from now on?!
]]>@Meiran: I think they had the Reeese's PB Cup on Unwrapped (or one of those shows on the Food Network), and IIRC, they roast and grind their own peanuts instead of buying institutional peanut butter
]]>Throw out? I would rather bring it back to the store for a refund.
]]>Here you go
]]>That's my guess anyway, otherwise they would be listing all Reese's products. It feels to me like it would have been the first places they started testing.
]]>For open vats of peanut butter to be exposed to the dirt and raw peanut dust enough to contain salmonella is clearly not sanitary or proper food handling.
This kind of thing makes me continue to swear off processed foods.
]]>Christ, I had the same concern. I LIVE for the girl scout peanut butter sandwich cookies.
I just ordered six boxes. Am I gonna die?
]]>@Russell Miller: Maybe. The problem with food poisoning type illnesses is that sometimes it only takes a few hours for you to realize what's happened. Other times it takes days.
]]>@GoVegan: Yes, but at the same time, you wonder why it happened. I acknowledge that sometimes accidents happen. But how many food recalls have we had in the last few years compared to say before the Bush Era (you knew it was coming)? The FDA is supposed to be monitoring production sites, but it appears (suprise) that letting companies police themselves when it comes to safety isn't working. I don't think people realize that the cost of having a sufficiently staffed and empowered FDA is much less than we've been directly/indirectly spending on recalls.
]]>@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: probably beacuse the Reese's products in question also contain peanut butter not found in their Reese's brand ingreedents.
]]>It seems to have mostly gone away now.
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