Peanut butter recall - Edit: FDA widens warning

[southerngale]

Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter products beginning with product code 2111 have been recalled for possible salmonella contamination.

If consumers have this product, they should discard it, but save the product lid.

For a full refund, consumers must return the Peter Pan Peanut Butter or Great Value Peanut Butter product lids or labels, with as much of the lot number in tact as possible, along with their name and mailing address to:
Click here to find out more!

ConAgra Foods,
P.O. Box 3768
Omaha, NE 68103

Consumers with questions or concerns about the recall can call the ConAgra Foods 24-hour toll-free hotline at: 866-344-6970.

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News release: http://www.nbc5i.com/download/2007/0215/11016780.pdf

[Brent]

We had some with that product number in the cabinet. I haven't eaten any in a long time though.

[sweetpea]

I had some in my cabinet to. Just had a PB & Jelly sandwich yesterday. I feel fine, but my stomach turned when I realized that I had eaten some of it. Just threw it away.

Debbie

[whereverwx]

Whoa; thanks for posting this! I just checked my cabinet, and as it turns out my jars begin with the code "2111".

I have had a family member who supposably got sick from this. At first I thought nothing of it, but now I'm reconsidering.

I'm just glad I didn't get sick, and that I opted not to eat any last night and the nights before! And now I feel sick just thinking about it. . .lol. . .

[Lindaloo]

Choosy Mothers choose JIF. IMO, that is the only peanut butter made.

[Tstormwatcher]

My PB has that lot # and its almost empty. So far no sickness for me or my dogs.

[O Town]

Thanks for the heads up. We bought some about a month ago it was buy one get one free, and the one I have left half eaten has the code. No sickness here either, and hubby eats ALOT of it. lol. But I just saw this on Craigslist and was wondering why someone would give away a case of peanut butter, now I know. And it has the same code 2111.

[Stephanie]

I love JIF peanut butter. No worries here.

[Category 5]

I'd be very intrested to hear HOW it got into the peanut butter.

[BreinLa]

I had a jar too now in the trash

[Jack8631]

I mailed three lids back to ConAgra Foods for a full refund. Hopefully they will make it worth the effort (and postage).

ConAgra Foods, P.O. Box 3768, Omaha, NE 68103.

[TexasStooge]

Got the Kroger brand Peanut Butter here. So far, so good.

[MScoast]

I had two jars...one peter pan, one great value. Threw them both out. Nobody sick..thank goodness!

[angelwing]

Interesting...my hubby had peanut butter ice cream Wednesday night, Thursday 2AM he woke me up, vomiting, diarrhea, pain, 102 fever...as of today he still is sick (not as bad thank goodness), now I'm wondering if that was bad?????? (and he already threw out the container, dang it)

[HollynLA]

They also gave away the fact that the Great Value is just Peter pan in disguise. I also only buy Jiff for my kids (I can't touch it on my diet). But I'm still wondering how did salmonella get in peanut butter. I thought that was only found in poultry and fish.

[southerngale]

FDA widens peanut butter warning

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All Peter Pan peanut butter bought since May 2006 should be discarded, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday in a statement broadening its warning about salmonella-contaminated peanut butter.

More than 290 people from 39 states have become ill in the food poisoning outbreak, and 46 have been hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

ConAgra Foods Inc., which makes Peter Pan, said earlier it was checking the source of the contamination, which may have also affected the Great Value label peanut butter it makes for retailer Wal-Mart.

The FDA had said on Wednesday that certain batches of Peter Pan butter may contain salmonella and that all had a product code on the lid of the jar beginning with 2111.
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The FDA said the suspect Great Value peanut butter also could be identified by the 2111 code.

The CDC has identified the strain of bacteria as Salmonella Tennessee, one of many strains of salmonella bacteria.

They can cause nausea, diarrhea and other ill effects, but usually the sickness clears up on its own in less than a week.

"Although Great Value peanut butter with the specified product code has not been linked by CDC to the cases of Salmonella Tennessee infection, the product is manufactured in the same plant as Peter Pan peanut butter and, thus, is believed to be at similar risk of contamination," the FDA said in a statement.

"Great Value peanut butter made by manufacturers other than ConAgra is not affected."

The FDA said it persuaded ConAgra to recall the peanut butter on Wednesday, shortly after the CDC confirmed it was investigating the outbreak.

"FDA laboratory personnel will analyze samples collected from the manufacturing plant," the agency said.

The last major outbreak of salmonella food poisoning in the United States was in November and was linked to tomatoes. It made 183 people ill in 22 states and Canada.
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Every year, approximately 40,000 cases of salmonellosis are reported in the United States and about 600 people die of it, according to the CDC.

Consumer groups have been complaining about federal food safety efforts, saying the various agencies involved, including FDA, CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, do not work together well enough.

"If we cannot protect the nation's supply of peanut butter, one must ask how prepared we are for a terrorist attack on our nation's food supply," Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak said on Friday.

"As Chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, I have already been working with Commerce Committee Chairman (John) Dingell to open an investigation into the adequacy of the FDA's efforts to protect our nation's food supply."

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[azsnowman]

They also gave away the fact that the Great Value is just Peter pan in disguise. I also only buy Jiff for my kids (I can't touch it on my diet). But I'm still wondering how did salmonella get in peanut butter. I thought that was only found in poultry and fish.

Sam and Ella can be in almost ANY food....from watermelons to cantaloupes to honeydo's, apples...any food that is grown!

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

This sucks, I heard almost 300 cases.

[streetsoldier]

Tossed my "Great Value" PB as soon as I heard about the salmonella.

[Dionne]

Just for the heck of it I checked out salmonella on the CDC site......I found this one interesting sentence.....

"Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces."