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    As Salmonella Recall Expands, FDA Warns Consumers To "Postpone Eating" Many Peanut Butter Products

    The FDA still hasn't tracked down all that yummy salmonella-contaminated peanut butter, and until they do, they want consumers to stop eating all "commercially-prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter." No, this doesn't mean the jar of Skippy on your shelf, but it does seem to cover cookies, cakes, and ice cream; pretty much any shrink-wrapped peanut butter snack.

    The problem is that the affected products aren't sold in one or two pound jars that are sold in supermarkets. The contaminated peanut butter from the Peanut Corporation of America factory in Georgia was sold in bulk packages that weighed between five and 1700 pounds. Contaminated peanut paste was sold in sizes ranging from 35 pounds to whole tanker containers. That's a lot of contaminated peanut butter!

    Until the FDA salmonella hunters can determine who got which tanker of what, they don't want anyone eating manufactured products with peanut butter. Sorry!

    Because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating commercially-prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter until further information becomes available about which products may be affected. Efforts to specifically identify those products are ongoing.

    At this time, there is no indication that any national name brand jars of peanut butter sold in retail stores are linked to the PCA recall. As the investigation continues over the weekend, and into next week, the FDA will be able to update the advice based on new sampling and distribution information.

    It's not like most of this stuff goes bad quickly, so just keep it in the pantry for a few weeks until you know it's safe.

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

    Hy-Vee Inc.

    Recall includes all sell-by dates for the following products, sold in various
    packaging and quantities and having a Hy-Vee price label attached. Sold in
    all Hy-Vee stores in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota
    and Minnesota.

    Assorted Truffle Fudge
    Lunchbox Peanut Butter Cookies
    Lunchbox Reese’s Pieces Cookies
    Monster Cookies
    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Peanut Butter Cookies

    Peanut Butter Reese’s Pieces Cookies
    People Chow Party Mix

    Kellogg Company

    Kellogg products impacted by the recall were produced on or after July 1,
    2008, including:
    Austin® Quality Foods Cheese Crackers with Peanut Butter - all
    sizes
    Austin® Quality Foods Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackersall
    sizes

    Austin® Quality Foods Mega Stuffed Cheese Crackers with Peanut
    Butter – all sizes
    Austin® Quality Foods PB & J Cracker Sandwiches – all
    sizes
    Austin® Quality Foods Super Snack Pack Sandwich Crackers

    Austin® Quality Foods Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all
    sizes
    Austin® Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter – all
    sizes
    Austin® Quality Foods Reduced Fat Cheese & Peanut Butter
    Sandwich Crackers

    Austin® Quality Foods Reduced Fat Toasty Crackers with Peanut
    Butter Sandwich Crackers
    Austin® Quality Foods Cookie/Cracker Pack
    Austin® Quality Foods Variety Pack
    Famous Amos® Peanut Butter Cookies (2- and 3-ounce)

    Keebler® Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all
    sizes
    Keebler® Toast & PB'n J Flavored Sandwich Crackers – all
    sizes

    Keebler® Toast & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers – all
    sizes
    Keebler® Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies (2.5-ounce)

    King Nut Companies

    All King Nut and Parnell’s Pride peanut butter of all types distributed
    by King Nut with item numbers that begin with 038445 on the individual tub
    and if still in a case, all lot codes that begin in “8”

    McKee Foods Corporation

    Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Toasty sandwich crackers — all sizes.
    Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Cheese sandwich crackers — all sizes.

    Perry's Ice Cream Company

    Perry’s is recalling ice cream products containing peanut butter sauce,
    which have been recalled by PCA.

    Products affected by the recall are as follows:

    ITEM DESCRIPTION
    Perry's Premium Peanut Butter Cup Craze Ice Cream 1/2 Pint
    Perry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.5 QT, 1.75 QT AND 3 GL
    Perry's Peanut Butter Chip Frozen Yogurt 1.5 QT, 1.75 QT and 3 GL
    Perry's Peanut Butter Sundae Crunch Ice Cream Bar Bulk 24 pack

    Perry's Premium Peanut Butter Fudge Ice Cream 1.5 QT and 1.75 QT
    Perry's Perfectly Churned Light Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.5 QT and 1.75
    QT
    Perry's Light Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Shurfine Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Wegmans Chocolate Nutty Cone Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 1.75 QT and Pint

    Wegmans Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Sundae Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Pretzel Ice Cream 1.75 QT
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Bar 6 pack
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Candy Sundae Cup Ice Cream 4 pack
    Wegmans Peanut Butter Sundae Cup Ice Cream 4 pack

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