Huh. I had a couple of (nature valley) peanut butter bars, and got a really bad stomachache for a couple of days. I wonder if I had it.

It seems to have mostly gone away now.

I am glad they caught this before a lot of people got sick (hopefully)!

I say, go natural when you're buying peanut butter. Regularly used peanut butter is full of hydrogenated oils and fats, so why not just get organic peanut butter.

I don't like how only two Reesees products are listed here. WHat about all the other Reesees branded products that aren't listed? Have they not yet been tested or..... Hmm....

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: probably beacuse the Reese's products in question also contain peanut butter not found in their Reese's brand ingreedents.

For the love of Christ, I need to know...does this include Tagalongs?!?!? It's cookie season, dammit! Does this include Tagalongs?!?!?!?!?!?

@GoVegan: Yes, but at the same time, you wonder why it happened. I acknowledge that sometimes accidents happen. But how many food recalls have we had in the last few years compared to say before the Bush Era (you knew it was coming)? The FDA is supposed to be monitoring production sites, but it appears (suprise) that letting companies police themselves when it comes to safety isn't working. I don't think people realize that the cost of having a sufficiently staffed and empowered FDA is much less than we've been directly/indirectly spending on recalls.

@Russell Miller: Maybe. The problem with food poisoning type illnesses is that sometimes it only takes a few hours for you to realize what's happened. Other times it takes days.

Well, I survived eating two jars of tainted peanut butter last year, so if I survived that, I must be immune or invulnerable to contaminated peanut butter!

People Chow Party Mix?
Soylent Green is people?

@Cupajo:
Hopefully not, But half the cookies are baked by Little Brownie Bakers a division of Keeblers

All these peanut-butter related posts are making me hungry! This is the last straw -- I'm going to make peanut butter cookies tonight.

@Cupajo:

Christ, I had the same concern. I LIVE for the girl scout peanut butter sandwich cookies.

I just ordered six boxes. Am I gonna die?

Oh my. As I read this, I was enjoying one of my guiltiest pleasures, the Little Debbie Peanutty Bar. Oh you delicious log of wafery peanut buttery chocolatey goodness, how can I quit you?

Last time they recalled all the peanut butter, it took them at least half of a year to get my honey peanut butter back. I hope it doesn't happen again.

This is seriously getting out of control... First it was lettuce then it was tomatoes and now Peanuts... How do you end up with a bacteria found in the intestines of cattle contaminating peanuts. Is the slaughter factory located above every single vegetable producer?

With all the food problems here and around the world, I'm going to give up on it completely and just start eating bugs I find around the house. Couldn't possibly be any worse.

I read up on what caused the previous Peter Pan outbreak. It seems that it is improper handling of the finished peanut butter where dust and such from the raw peanut portion of the factory is getting into finished peanut butter before it is sealed into containers for shipment. That sounds like some pretty lax and disgusting production.

For open vats of peanut butter to be exposed to the dirt and raw peanut dust enough to contain salmonella is clearly not sanitary or proper food handling.

This kind of thing makes me continue to swear off processed foods.

This is the worst news ever. Why couldn't it have been diseased carrots and broccoli?? Why did it have to be yummy yummy peanut butter?

I understand why they'd have products with peanut butter filling listed, but a regular peanut butter cookie? Those are baked well over the temperature needed to kill salmonella (160-180F). Do the Hy-Vee cookies have a peanut butter filling, or is there something I'm missing?

@ARP: That's often a reflection of what the infective organism is. Staph tends to get pretty fast reactions, for instance, whereas Salmonella is slower, and noroviruses take even longer.

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: If I have to throw out all the Reese's PB cups and eggs I got on clearance after Christmas I am gonna have a fit...they are like heroin to me!

@lauy: From what I gathered on the list those were products that used Reese's Pieces and might contain other peanut butter sources which is where the contamination came from.

That's my guess anyway, otherwise they would be listing all Reese's products. It feels to me like it would have been the first places they started testing.

I'm wondering if this is going to include the Otis Spunkmeyer peanut butter cookie dough that I just purchased through the school fundraiser...

@soloudinhere:
[www.littlebrowniebakers.com]

Here you go

I'm eating Reese's Puffs cereal as I sit here writing this... so far, no ill effects.

@Triborough: People chow is wonderful. Crispix covered in peanut butter covered in chocolate dusted with confectioner's sugar.

Ah well. I enjoyed the 100 calorie packs of Reese's "stuff" I wanted to try last week. Yummy for the size provided.

For the moment, you definitely want to throw out the following products:

Throw out? I would rather bring it back to the store for a refund.

@Triborough: That was my question as well. I figured it must be analogous to Puppy Chow or Bachelor Chow or whatever. Wait, now I'm wondering what "Puppy Chow" is made out of ...

You would think that this would cost a lot of companies a lot of money to recall all of this food. Given that, wouldnt companies try to avoid this? Doesnt make any sense

@TinkishDelight officially OVER the dc tourist infestation: Yeah, why isn't there ever, like, a lima-beans-and-brussels-sprouts salmonella scare?

@Meiran: I think they had the Reeese's PB Cup on Unwrapped (or one of those shows on the Food Network), and IIRC, they roast and grind their own peanuts instead of buying institutional peanut butter

Though I'm kind of proud that Minnesota has diagnosed the last THREE big salmonella scares. We like leaky butts and we can not lie, those other manufacturers can't deny...

/trying to be funny but, ugh. I'm SICK AND TIRED of our food being contaminated these last few years. Do I need to grow all of my own food from now on?!

Unless I eat peanut butter, I will never catch salmonella. If I never catch salmonella, I can never report finding the salmonella to the FDA. And if I can't report finding Salmonella to the FDA, then we'll never find the Salmonella, and I wont be able to eat peanut butter.

So im just going to eat peanut butter.

All of this is bad for the peanut butter industry - I think they need a government bailout.

@ARP: i know what you mean. i know for a fact that i have eaten at least 6 of those peanut butter products in the last week.

@ElmerKabobbing: It's found in nature. That's how it gets into the cows stomach.

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!:
I suspect that the many products with the "Reese's" name attached to them are manufactured in different factories by different companies. That is why some products may be affected and other varieties will not be.

I had a snickers and some reeses pieces... Should have stayed away, but I feel fine. We tossed some Austin crackers, its just one less thing to worry about.

A person would be better off without all this processed & prepackaged stuff anyway.

@mantari: Regular Peanut Butter + Honey = Honey Peanut Butter. You're welcome.

Okay, this seems to indicate (to me at least) that unless you specifically eat one of these products, in that brand name, you don't really have a chance of getting any kind of salmonella from peanut butter.

I ate a Hershey's Reese's Peanut Butter Cup today, but that's definitely not on the list.

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: Also, the list mentions those reese's products specifically were only sold in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota. So if you don't live in any of those states, and don't have products purchased with the Hy-Vee label, you're fine.

my wife has been deathly ill for the bast couple of days and she has a very short list of things she's eaten before getting sick, but one was cookies. I asked her what kind, and sure enough, peanut butter.

Don't eat Safeway bakery peanut butter cookies until this all gets figured out!

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!:

You can't assume that they are the same. A lot of times regular-sized candy has one recipe and fun-sized or holiday shaped candy has another. It's something people with food allergies are totally aware of because we obsess over labels, but most people don't realize how different similar stuff can be.

If it starts affecting Tastycakes, I'm in big trouble.

I hope Nabisco Nutter Butters are safe to eat. They're on sale at CVS this week. I feel like I'm playing Russian roulette with my snack treats.

I had what seemed to be food poisoning last week. I narrowed it down to two things: a portabello burger at a local restaurant and Little Debbie peanut butter cookie stick things. Everything else I ate last week was eaten by someone else I know who didn't get sick. I'm not sure if it was the Little Debbie snacks or not, but I threw them out anyhow.

People Chow Party Mix.

Doesn't salmonella get killed in the baking process? I understand if the contaminated peanut butter is the filling between cookies or crackers, but if it's mixed in with the flour and eggs and hydrogenated vegetable oils, as in a peanut butter cookie? How does it survive the ovens?