Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter. Does anyone know which brands recalled?

http://wcco.com/consumer/... an article on WCCO a local station where I live. You can research the salmonella case recall through them.

Namaste-Anora

Thanks for the info.
I have checked it out.

Here is an excerpt from one of the links on that page.

Excerpt:

"All containers, varieties and types of Peter Pan peanut butter, all products containing Peter Pan brand peanut butter, and all jars of Great Value brand peanut butter bearing a product code that begins "2111" are potentially contaminated.

Potentially contaminated products include 3/4 ounce and 1.1 ounce single serving packs of Peter Pan brand peanut butter. All of these products contain peanut butter that was manufactured in ConAgra's Sylvester, Georgia plant. Retailers and institutions possessing the products described should not serve or sell them. Any consumer possessing any of these products should discard them."

I checked the cupboard.
We don't have any Peter Pan in stock at the house this week.

But, we have used it recently, in the past few months.

Here's the additional link if anyone wants to check out
more info on the FAQ page.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/pnutbuqa.html#size

Thanks for the link!

It's really scary you know. What's more scary is the FDA was aware of the contamination early on and didn't do anything. (See article link above). I'm trying to switch to all organic but we still get WIC so I have to get the brands that WIC will pay for, and as you said old reliable JIF.

Namaste-Anora

Thanks for the extra links by the way.

I'm very familiar with WIC.
I was on WIC during the duration of my pregnancy
and when my baby was small.

I did appreciate all their help.

Thanks for the helpful links.

Recently, I saw a really good review about Peter Pan
on a TV show which was apparently produced before
the Peter Pan recall.

I am glad to have this info now.

Luckily, noone in my home was affected or became ill.

We were so fortunate.

What concerned me was the idea that there
might be some families out there who had
bought the contaminated brands in bulk and who
still might not be aware of the situation.

I hope they are rechecking just to be sure.

If I had any of that stuff in my house,
it would be in the trash now!

Old reliable JIF!

My spouse does most of the grocery shopping and
always buys the chunky JIF variety.

I prefer creamy peanut butter.

Skippy's always a good brand.

I'm so out of it on current events.
The only thing I'm following these days
are the CSpan hearings about food contamination
and the AIG bonuses scandal.

I watch and read news alot. But I don't watch CSpan. Makes my head hurt.

We just got cable recently and CSpan
has become one of my new obsessions.
I get so tired of the watered down
version that some shows offer.

I feel like I'm getting the real
scoop on stuff.

For instance, like this whole mess
with the AIG bonuses.

I was watching the CSpan hearings
with the current head of AIG.

It was a very eye opening experience.

Most people don't know that the
debt owed by AIG is currently being
repaid and that AIG has a solid plan in
place for repayment.

The local news just spins it out in
the most tantalizing way to sell more
ad space.

That is why I read a lot on the internet.
You see all this stuff on the news and than read up on it and it is only part of the story.
As for the bailouts I don't think them paying the money back is really the point.
People are just sick of all these businesses that ran their companies the way they did just get money because they were stupid. They all got greedy and made bad decisions and now they want to get bailed out.
And our country doesn't have the money to begin with. They are selling bonds to China to fund the bailouts.

It's a big stinkin' mess!
That's for sure.

The bailout! The bonuses.

There's no good part of it.

My worry is that the whole thing
is being blown out of proportion
to over shadow the Obama Presidency
and what Pres. Obama is actually
trying to do to help get the economy
back on track.

everything is blown out of proportion these days

The news people do it to sell
more ad space.

I don't really think they could
care less about getting to the truth
or uncovering anything as long
as they are uncovering more
profits for themselves.

They don't care whose life they wreck.

But, then again, I'm sure there are
reputable journalists out there.

I'm just talking about the stations
that sensationalize stories
to the umpteenth degree.

For no good reason at all!

It's a really sad situation,
especially for us.

Peanut butter is one of my daughter's
favorite foods.

And, she's at that very picky age
where there are only just a handful
of foods she wants to eat.

Getting rid of peanut butter would
be tough for us.

It's very economical and we can actually
get her to eat peanut butter.

And, ordinarily, it's very healthy.

P.S. I hate generic brands of Peanut butter.

I'm way picky over peanut butter taste.

My daughter gets her picky pallette from me.

I can't bad tasting food.

Just never thought that I would
have to worry about contaminated foods.

Well, there was that catastrophe with
the contaminated tomatoes.

Or, was it contaminated peppers.
I can't remember.

But, a lot of people here in the US got sick over it.

Some people have even died over the peanut butter
contamination issue.

I hope Pres. Obama can revamp our food safety
system like he promised.

I'm shocked too!
I live in the US and there was
nothing about it on my local news.

I don't watch news too often, but most
times, I do catch the local updates,
first five minutes of the show
and noone had said anything.

I had to watch CSpan to find out!

It's a real tragedy that so many here
in the US got sick over it.

Plus, they mentioned that some foods
containing contaminated alfalfa sprouts
(like the stuff used in health foods and such)
have been equally making people sick here in
the US and have even killed 2 people.

But, you won't hear that on the news,
cause it doesn't sell ad space.

It's a sad situation.

I hope more people will become aware of
food safety.

So sad when people suffer over these situations.

This is the first that I'm hearing
about it. I've been so out of the
loop on national events.

I'm just glad that they did the
recalls otherwise we'd still be
buying tainted peanut butter.

The government has to mandate those
recalls and not rely on the news
outlets to spread the word
about the tainted food products.

This reminds me so much of the
tainted tomatoes last yeart.

That was another scary situation,
cause we ate tomatoes all the time.

So many people got sick.

Not a good thing at all.

I watched some of the hearings on CSpan
about this situation, with the heads of
Kellogs and such.

They all seemed to want to do their
part to keep foods safe.

But, apparently, someone in those
companies knew about the contamination
before the products went to
market and just dropped the ball
and didn't tell anyone.

Guess they figured the situation
would resolve itself.

It did. But, in a very bad way.

I believe he is talking about the original scare. Thankfully there is not a new one. Plus, at the time they did say that the jarred peanut butters were never effected, just the peanut/peanut butter containing products. So, you should be safe. They often have coupons for Skippy online or often directly from the website that you can print out. So, you can get the brand you like.

Thank you so much for letting me know. I do not have a printer but my neighbor does and I do have some printer paper here so maybe she would print one out for me. Or else our Kmart right up the street has computers and they allow you to be on there for 30 minute at a time and can print 5 papges I believe.