Comments | isara: Huge Peanut Butter Recall

isara

Huge Peanut Butter Recall - Salmonella

Jan 21, 2009 10:22

I only just heard about this. Pass it on...

The peanut butter recall started with Peanut Corporation of America at one plant in Blakely, GA. ...they issued a press release and recalled a modest number of products. None of the products are for consumers to eat at retail locations, which meant that only those who buy peanut butter wholesale needed ( Read more... )

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jetspeaks January 21 2009, 18:27:28 UTC

I knew peanut butter was evil.

isara January 21 2009, 18:29:18 UTC

hehehe. Personally, I love the stuff, but I could do without the sewage.

danarama January 21 2009, 19:51:52 UTC

Nobody seems to mention the real most likely culprit. Workers who pick the peanuts (spinach, tomatoes, or other ground-grown produce) often choose to relieve themselves in the crops rather than walk to the toilet facilities or port-a-potty. If one's even available, it can be a half mile away, if their supervisor allows them to take a break, and the workers get paid by piecework.

I picked strawberries for two summers and saw this all the time.

squidflakes January 21 2009, 19:52:15 UTC

That figures, the one time I buy thirty-five pounds of peanut butter, it's contaminated with raw sewage.

isara January 21 2009, 19:53:23 UTC

that'll larn ya

squidflakes January 21 2009, 20:02:51 UTC

I suppose Squiddy's Roll-An-Orphan-In-Peanut-Butter Festival is complete off now. Damn.

erg January 21 2009, 20:09:51 UTC

Fast Food Nation talks about our creating a streamlined food system which is just great at spreading pathogens incredibly far and wide.
The first few headlines had me concerned, but in this case, I'm a Jarhead :).

I think one could do the benefit for the Orphanage, there'd just have to be honor guards to make sure the seal on the jars were untampered with and all the "Reeses"® cups would have to be made on site, like pies. I've seen pictures of judges at pie fairs, don't they wear honor guard sashes?

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terpsichoros January 21 2009, 21:12:47 UTC

"Coarse Natural Paste Tanker", on the list *after* the 1700 pound containers. Just how much peanut butter is in a "tanker"?

isara January 21 2009, 21:15:42 UTC

can you say, "peanut butter pool party?

lostraven January 23 2009, 00:30:40 UTC

I'm digging the hair in this new icon! rAwR!

-Shawn

isara January 23 2009, 01:44:08 UTC

oh, the icon is rather old, actually! a year or so :)