Salmonella Alert

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

WARNING: FDA Issues Recall On Peanut Butter
A salmonella outbreak that has slowly grown to nearly 300 cases in 39 states since August has been linked to tainted peanut butter

Comments

[sousrature]

Hmm. I hate peanut butter but I enjoy everything else made with peanuts and after a while I can't remember why I hate it. So every 5 years or so I buy some and I was thinking of doing that this week. Well, now, not so much.

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Yeah, I don't eat a lot of peanuts/peanut butter, especially as I am trying to lose weight and PNB is loaded with fats and weak on other nutrients, but I do enjoy it on occasion.

[ankai]

Noted. Ixnay on the peanut butter.

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Well, I don't think ALL peanut butter is a problem. Of course, even uncontaminated peanut butter has aflatoxins and other issues, so ....

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

"Statistically, just as a rule of thumb, two tablespoons of peanut butter a day produce a higher risk of death than living next to a nuclear power plant.

A lot higher, if you eat peanut butter made from peanuts that sit around on the shelves for weeks at a time, or from opened jars of peanut butter that sit around unrefrigerated for weeks at a time."

Emphasis mine.

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

If you're going to feed your kids PB&J, don't live nextdoor to a nuclear plant?