peanut butter recall

The contaminated peanut butter came from the Peanut Corporation of America. The recall is specific for 21 lots produced in their Blakely, GA plant. Brand names affected by the recall are King Nut and Parnell's Pride, which are normally packaged for institutional use. Kellogg has issued a recall for some of their products that were produced using PCA products, even though they were not among the 21 affected lots. The Kellogg products recalled are under the Kellogg name and also Keebler and Austin names. Hershey does not use peanut butter manufactured by PCA, so you and your daughter should have nothing to worry about. The current recall is based on salmonella bacteria found in an open peanut butter container found in a MN long-care facility, last September. 30 other people in MN also became sick with the same strain of salmonella bacteria. Since last September, 400 people in 43 states have been diagnosed with the same strain. At this point the CDC is "investigating a possible link between the peanut butter salmonella and the national outbreak."

Yikes! I haven't heard anything at all about a peanut butter recall. It's not a problem for me though since I'm allergic to peanuts. I haven't eaten anything at all with even the slightest trace of peanut butter in years, yet alone in the past week. But any type of food recall is scary! We trust that food made available for us is safe. It's very frightening when there's a chance it might not be!

I have but I don't think that is much help. They were left overs from Halloween. But I just got back from the grocery store and didn't see any empty spots on the shelves. There were still Reese's on the shelves, in the Valentine's aisle. And there were Ghiradelli peanut butter filled chocolates there too. So, near as I could tell nothing has been pulled. Which of course makes a person wonder.... if they are recalling the PB and they aren't pulling the candies off the shelves... what's the deal?