Well, it’s official. This peanut butter Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak is out of control. I can barely keep up with the fast and furious announcements coming from the various state and national health agencies, and the recalls from food product manufacturers whose products were made with the implicated peanut butter. For a more complete, play-by-play source of
January 2009
Girl Scout Cookies Safe! “Sweet Success Peanut Butter Cookie Dough?”…Not So Much
Hey. Did you just hear that? It was the collective sigh of relief from all the cookie fiends out there like me who are addicted to those delicious, sweet morsels of goodness known as Do-si-dos and Tagalongs Girl Scout Cookies. In the first bit of good news I’ve heard since this whole Salmonella peanut butter outbreak began, the Girl Scouts announced…
FDA Announcement to the Public: Don’t Eat Peanut Butter
In a stunning and far-reaching announcement today regarding the ongoing investigation into a nationwide Salmonella outbreak, the FDA urged the public to avoid eating ANY products containing peanut butter. In its own words, "because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating peanut butter-containing products until further …
Conneticut Dept of Health Confirms Salmonella Found in UNOPENED Jar of King Nut Peanut Butter
Food inspectors conducting recall effectiveness checks in the state this week in response to the nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to King Nut peanut butter have confirmed the presence of salmonella bacteria in an unopened five-pound tub of peanut butter found at a Connecticut food distributor, Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr.
“This is the first …
The CDC and FDA Updates on the Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Peanut Corp of America
Today the CDC and FDA updated their websites to reflect new information on the continuing (and widening) Salmonella outbreak that has thus far caused a confirmed 453 Salmonella Typhimurium infections in citizens of 43 states, and has led to at least six deaths.
As the investigation continues, do not be surprised to see more announcements regarding…
Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak Source Expanding?
As Federal, State, and Local health agencies continue their investigations into the nationwide Salmonella outbreak recently linked to King Nut brand peanut butter, other products containing the implicated peanut butter may also be linked to the outbreak.
Preliminary analysis of an epidemiologic study conducted by CDC and public health officials in multiple states comparing…
Salmonella to do list – one down, eight to go
As of a few moments ago, 15 more cases of salmonella poisoning in the now nationwide outbreak have been reported, bringing the total to 425 in 43 state with 3 deaths. Nearly 18% of the victims have been hospitalized. Praise to Peanut Corporation Corporation for the Recall.
From a Press Release
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Minnesota DOH Confirms: King Nut Peanut Butter Salmonella Is A Genetic Match to National Salmonella Outbreak
The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health today announced that laboratory analyses have confirmed a genetic match between the strains of Salmonella bacteria found in a container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter and the strains of bacteria associated with 30 illnesses in Minnesota and nearly 400 illnesses around the country.
MDA lab tests…
People get Salmonella Typhimurium from eating Peanut Butter, Minnesota points the finger at King Nut, who points the finger at Peanut Corporation of America, so what is next?
Minnesota Department of Health announces late Friday that the have linked thirty illnesses ( and a death) to the consumption of King Nut Peanut Butter (and Parnell’s Pride?). There is nothing on the CDC website or other State Health Department sites naming names – yet. On Saturday King Nut and the FDA jointly release a…
Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Source – King Nut Peanut Butter
Here we go again! Peanut butter is once again being implicated as the source of a major samlonella outbreak in the US (Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter were the implicated sources in the previous outbreak).
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) today issued a product advisory after…