Peanut butter manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) and sold from its Blakely, Georgia plant has been tested and confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration as having a contamination of salmonella bacteria. More than 43 states have reported salmonella infections with the same genetic fingerprint as the contaminated lots of peanut butter. Reports estimate 492 illnesses and 7 deaths linked to the contaminated peanut butter. The recall affects 21 lots of PCA peanut butter in containers ranging from five to fifty pounds and several different brand names such as King Nut peanut butter and Parnell's Pride. All PCA customers who received the peanut butter are being contacted via telephone and in writing. The company has stated that all the recalled product has been sold in bulk packaging to a distribution company, servicing large institutions, including food service industries, school cafeterias, and retirement communities. No contamination has yet been discovered in any consumer brands of peanut butter, but some consumer products containing peanut butter have been recalled.
In 2007, ConAgra recalled all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 that already was distributed. The company also destroyed all affected products in their possession, due to risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee. ConAgra advised consumers to destroy any Peter Pan and Great Value brand peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 in their possession. In response with this announcement, the FDA sent investigators to ConAgra's processing plant in Sylvester, Georgia where the products are made to review records, collect product samples and conduct tests for Salmonella Tennessee. The contamination affected hundreds of consumers across 39 states.
Peanut Butter Recall Estimated to Cost Close to $1 Billion
News reports have recently determined that the cost of the most recent peanut butter recall may have cost consumers, manufacturers and health officials hundreds of millions of dollars and caused a significant decline in peanut products, thus increasing the overall costs lost by officials, according to Associated Press figures derived from Congressional hearings from Peanut Butter Corp of America. Michigan alone has spent nearly $400,000 monitoring peanut butter products entering the state, according to local newspaper reports. On January 27, by the time more than 400 individuals were sickened, the FDA concluded that improper methods had been used when monitoring and testing the peanut butter for salmonella.
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The recent recall of peanut butter that had sickened approximately 575 individuals - killing at least eight - affecting victims across 43 states, according to the Chicago Tribune , is also responsible for the recall of more than 400 products, including peanut butter foods that have been made for dogs, prompting recalls for pet-owners as well. The initial recall occurred on January 13 from a peanut butter manufacturing plant in Blakely, Georgia, when hundreds of companies who received bulk shipments of peanut butter deriving from the Peanut Corp. By the time the recall was issued on January 13 from the company, at least 400 individuals had been sickened by peanut butter made in the previous six months from the Peanut Corp.
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