Peanut Butter in products recalled, say not safe to eat
Peanut Corporation
Man, I love peanut butter. Right now, in my cupboard, there are five jars of the brown goo. Peanut butter nourished me throughout childhood, college and spare times. Luckily, I don’t buy many process foods made with peanut butter.
McKee Foods Corp. of Collegedale, Tenn. made a voluntary recall covers all sizes of two kinds of sandwich crackers — Little Debbie peanut butter toasty crackers and Little Debbie peanut butter cheese crackers.
Officials are focusing on peanut paste, as well as peanut butter, produced at a Blakely, Ga., facility owned by Peanut Corp. of America. Its peanut butter is not sold directly to consumers but distributed to institutions and food companies. But the peanut paste, made from roasted peanuts, is an ingredient in cookies, cakes and other products that people buy in the supermarket.
The Kellogg Co., which listed Peanut Corp. as one of its suppliers, has recalled 16 products. They include Austin and Keebler branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, and some snack-size packs of Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies and Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies.
There have been deaths related to this current bad batch of peanut butter paste in all parts of the country. So, look through your cupboards and pantrys and throw these products away. The CDC said the bacteria behind the outbreak — typhimurium — is common and not an unusually dangerous strain but that the elderly or those with weakened immune systems are more at risk.
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