39 individuals who contracted salmonella after consuming Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter have slapped ConAgra with a $5 million class action suit. An additional 2,200 people have expressed interest in joining the action against the agribusiness giant. From the Daily Report:

The product liability suits associated with salmonella-contaminated peanut butter from ConAgra’s Sylvester plant are flowing into U.S. District Court in Atlanta from across the country, including Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Oklahoma. Multiple plaintiffs have complained they were sickened multiple times because they unwittingly continued to eat tainted peanut butter that ConAgra did not recall until February.

ConAgra has offered to send anyone who fell ill a coupon good for one free jar of Peter Pan peanut butter.

ConAgra faces 39 suits over bad peanut butter [Daily Report]
Peanut Butter Salmonella Class Action [PeanutButterClassAction.com]
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