Bad peanut butter?
By estherlou
@estherlou (5015)
United States
February 20, 2007 1:09am CST
Can you believe it? another way to get sick? tainted peanut butter? spinach leaves? what is the deal! Is any of our food producing plants really safe? What will be next? I happen to like peanut butter, too. At our cake shop, we took peanut butter cookies off our daily list for awhile, too. Wonder how long this will last.
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@rainbow (6761)
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20 Feb 07
I had no idea about this, spinach I had heard off and have deprived my family of it for a while which is a shame as it makes us strong like popeye. I may go back to it yet anyway, it never hurt us growing up.
I can't imagine peanut better ever being bad for us or spinach either really, it's such a shame that science can find something bad in everything if it tries.
Thank-you for letting us all know about this.
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@estherlou (5015)
• United States
20 Feb 07
My daughter is a lab technician. We were talking about this and how diseases could get on something like spinach leaves. Salmonella and ecoli are both gastrointestinal parasites. We commonly have ecoli in our own systems, but there is a more virilent strain that is not so common but shows up in some cattle. The way they could get on spinach or vegetables is by contaminated water they use to wash the veggies before sending them to market. One time, a lot of rain had caused run-off from a cattle feeding area to run into the well water at a produce farm. They then used the well water to mist the veggies on the way to market without knowing it was contaminated. It caused a huge outbreak. Interesting, huh?
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
20 Feb 07
I was surprised to hear about this bad peanut butter as well as the other things that have popped up in the news that have proven to have things in it that are harmful and causing serious illnesses. It seems like our plant and possibly the people working in them are not doing a good job making sure our food is safe to eat. I think they will need to do more inspections before more people get sick or die.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
20 Feb 07
In my opinion people need to be pickier (if they can afford it) about what products they buy. They need to do research about the companies they buy from and look at any possible problems they have had in the past. It seems like quite a few of these companies that have outbreaks have had things happen in their past. I have also noticed that alot of these products are the cheaper or easy to use products (generic peanut butter, grab and go salad bags). Doesn't anyone find this to be odd?
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@Willowlady (10657)
• United States
20 Feb 07
When we began to get away from raising our own things it became a risk. We don't know where our food is coming from, how it was raised and then the transport and handling etc. Something can go wrong at any step of the way. We kid ourselves if we think that there is never a risk. Our restaurants can be viewed the same way. i.c. taco bell and jack in the box. Those cookies were baked in the oven an I would have had no trouble buying them.
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@patootie (3592)
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22 Feb 07
We are just having a humus (or humous, a chickpea based dip) crisis here in the UK .. seems that salmonella had got into the mix somehow ..
So just as well it's easy to make .. I always have a few cans of chick peas ready to whiz up and make some humus with .. lovely for dipping corn chips into ..
I think it's inevitable that with all the tons of foods made by industry now and then a bug will get in ..
The good thing is that they test regularly .. and when they do find something then all the products are pulled from the shelves so we can't buy them ..
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@gemini1960 (1161)
• Philippines
20 Feb 07
you said so then i believe..maybe you should not buy another peanut butter to that store..to be safe..find another big store...
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