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Peanut Butter Probe Expands,Salmonella Contaminant Confirmed

huffingtonpost.com — The latest national food safety investigation took on new urgency Friday as federal officials confirmed salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 food companies. On Capitol Hill, the House Energy and Commerce Committee requested records as it opened its own inquiry.

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  • Junior612, on 01/17/2009, -1/+20This is nuts.
  • notoneofus, on 01/17/2009, -1/+19Peanut butter probe sounds wrong on so many levels.
  • Renian, on 01/17/2009, -1/+13"You got salmonella in my peanut butter!"
    "You got peanut butter in my salmonella!"
  • ricker2005, on 01/17/2009, -1/+11How exactly is this a result of lack of funding? It takes one error to contaminant a batch of food. There's no way you can catch the contamination every time. All you can do is contain the spread afterwards.
  • jakatak, on 01/17/2009, -0/+8i love how they can't even tell us what dates or brands or anything? Nice! I am so not throwing away my giant double pack of Jif.
  • Iggins, on 01/17/2009, -2/+9Oh god, is this like the tomato scare in which ONE person died so Taco Bell, Wendy's, Subway, Red Robin, etc. ALL threw out their tomatoes?
    Or is it like the spinach scare in which a few people got sick, so the whole US got rid of spinach?

    FTA:"Four of those five were elderly people, and all had salmonella when they died, though their exact causes of death haven't been determined. But the CDC said the salmonella may have contributed."
  • Popeiler, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7Be glad it wasn't tainted fudge.
  • inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+6Actually, things like this are usually vastly underreported. For every confirmed case in an outbreak, you have tons of cases that never get reported, either because the victim didn't go to the hospital or the connection was never made.
  • stonebear, on 01/18/2009, -0/+5Interesting thing about salmonella; it behaves in almost a social way, and does so with deliberately lethality. The salmonella bacteria immediately go dormant upon production. Somehow the bacteria produced after the tipping point, where there is a large enough population to kill the host, know to release a chemical which signals all the dormant bacterial to activate and release their poison at once, killing the host and providing the carrion by which the disease spreads.

    Fortunately salmonella is not a robust microbe, and has hard time reaching lethal proportions in a gut populated with healthy flora. Coriander is especially lethal to it, and is an effective preventative in places salmonella is common.
  • TelengardC64, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5LOL. Munching a can of peanuts as I read the article.
  • SummerNight, on 01/17/2009, -1/+5They butter act fast!
  • Hyperion1144, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4Great. I *just now* ate a peanut butter granola bar...
  • and303, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4"This is a very active investigation, but we don't yet have the data to provide consumers with specifics about what brands or products they should avoid,"

    Investigation? You mean asking: "Hey brotha...who do these ***** peanuts go to?"
  • NegativeDigg, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4That's how your mother died too huh...
  • davidjunit, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3Peter Pan Peanut butter alert, again?
  • avonwodahs, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3But it's expanding...
  • psychohog, on 01/18/2009, -0/+3Sometimes you feel like a slut, sometimes you don't.
  • andarnold, on 01/18/2009, -0/+3Can't we go at least a month without hearing that something has been contaminated with salmonella.
  • inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3That just makes it that much worse.
  • nymphetamine, on 01/18/2009, -0/+3i lol'd.
  • MaxxusFlamus, on 01/17/2009, -1/+3I thought only the chinese had this capability!!!
  • Bauer22, on 01/17/2009, -0/+2It's a pretty sticky situation.
  • sdcarter, on 01/17/2009, -1/+3That title just reads wrong... Peanut Butter Probe Expands?
  • Iggins, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2Which proves my point.
  • haikuFU, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2You are an idiot.
  • inactive, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2Buried as Huffpo.
  • Truson, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2Just another reason to go organic.
  • ncmason, on 01/17/2009, -1/+3I stopped eating peanut butter a long time ago. Why can't they contain these problems before shelving the dang product in grocery stores?
  • onionoino, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2We need a solution!
    A Peanut Butter Solution!
  • TekTrixter, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  • sallywally14, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2WHAT DO YOU MEAN A PETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER ALERT!?
  • chokeaduck, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2You know, I should have thought twice when funbags of Reese's Peanut butter cups were $2/bag at the Grocery store, I already ate a few... argh.
  • tokernizer, on 01/18/2009, -1/+2peanut butter jelly time! or maybe not.
  • inactive, on 01/17/2009, -1/+2OK - who HASN'T probed peanut butter?
  • sheeplescareme, on 01/18/2009, -1/+2http://www.truveo.com/Family-Guy-Its-Peanut-Butter ...
  • inactive, on 01/18/2009, -1/+2Next Tuesday can't come soon enough. /S`
  • inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1I guess that Christian dood was wrong.

    Sometimes you WILL open a jar of peanut butter to discover new life.
  • kgalbraith, on 01/20/2009, -0/+1What is the deal with all these salmonella outbreaks? Is our food industry slacking on the quality control and cleaning? I guess that is one way to cut costs. I think I should just buy more land and grow my own food. It seems much safer and I at least I would know what is going into it.
  • quarterStar, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1What's the incubation period? Same day? Next?

    I just ate some Reduced Fat Jif Crunchy... If I start feeling twisted, how do I use the Coriander?
  • faqtotum111, on 01/19/2009, -0/+1For anyone concerned with the recent FDA advisory regarding products containing peanut butter, check out this link to view an extensive list of products that contain peanut butter.
    http://blog.foodessentials.com/outbreak-alert/list ...
  • quarterStar, on 01/25/2009, -0/+1Well, I guess I can stop worrying about my jar of Jif and coriander (cilantro) for now. The FDA says not to be concerned about pb in a jar.

    Here's a link to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with its current pronouncement, peanut butter-laced foods to avoid, and a Kellogg's recall list:

    http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2 ...
  • chenyu768, on 01/17/2009, -2/+2so are we going to boycott Georgia now, or is that just a Chinese thing.
  • BradBrown, on 01/17/2009, -4/+3Sometimes you feel like a nut sack - sometimes you don't.
  • ricker2005, on 01/17/2009, -3/+1At least it wasn't E.Coli. The series of events needed for that to get in there...
  • shupy, on 01/17/2009, -12/+5This is the result of an FDA that is not funded or supported.

    You think it's funny? People have died from this tainted food.
  • alecadvent, on 01/17/2009, -13/+5That isn't funny.

    My dog died from licking salmonella contaminated peanut butter off my penis.

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