...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.
The FDA is working closely with members of the food industry to narrow this advice and to publish a detailed list of implicated products as soon as possible. The FDA is encouraging manufacturers to help inform consumers about whether their products could have contained commercially prepared peanut butter or peanut paste from PCA. Also, if manufacturers know their products do not contain ingredients from PCA, they may wish to inform consumers of that fact. Retailers should stop selling products which have been recalled....
The page has a link to the list of recalled products.
It contains things like Reese's Pieces and cookies containing them, crackers with peanut butter, peanut butter cookies, and ice cream, sold by Hy-Vee, Kellogg, McKee Foods, and Perry's Ice Cream Co.
I buy only peanut butter made in my supermarket. Only ingredient is peanuts-no added oil, salt or sugar. They run out often so I know it is made in only small batches. Hope it is ok.
Thanks for this info, Sunshine. I've been looking at the packages of Lay's cheese/peanutbutter crackers..wondering. Think I'll put them up until I know they aren't going to end up on a list.
I use Adam's Natural Crunchy Peanut Butter - just checked their website and they posted it is safe to eat. Thank goodness - don't know how I would survive without my daily dose of peanut butter!!
bluedaze, it's the peanuts themselves that are contaminated. And there is peanut butter on the list, that is sold to nursing homes and other large-scale use facilities. So far, none of the big name brand peanut butters are affected, but I'd do what Charlotte has done, and check with your supermarket to be sure. Those peanuts came from somewhere!
i play it safe and have already thrown it all out -period- cant take that chance. remember when the pet foods came out they said alot of it was ok and then pulled more products later. by that time more pets got sick. they cant test it all in one day. the list will be growing i bet in the weeks ahead. dont risk your health over a jar of peanut butter:)i really hated to ditch my nutrisysmtem peanut bars..ugh! divvi
i think its best not to eat peanuts for awhile of any kind..give them time to get a more tests done. my DH LOVES nuts and eats tons of granola bars and canned nuts cereals. etc. i am not giving him any for now and ditched it all just to play it safe-divvi
I have half a jar of peanut butter left....hasn't made us sick yet but don't feel good about eating the rest of it. Like divvi, I think I'll play it safe. I'm not going to discard the 3 cans of mixed nuts and the peanut butter I have left but will put them away until we find out more.
Yes, Mary, we can still eat other nuts and my DH likes all of them. Seems they are finding some of the healthiest foods contaminated now. Like the raw spinach. You would think nothing could be any better for you than that. Now peanut butter. What's next? Brocolli and blueberries?
Dazed, the contamination was traced to a processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which manufactures peanut butter and peanut paste. Both are distributed to food manufacturers to be used as an ingredient in many commercially-produced products including cakes, cookies, crackers, candies, cereal and ice cream. In addition, PCA peanut butter is distributed to and institutionally served in such settings as long-term care facilities and cafeterias.
So it's not the peanuts per se that are the problem. Whole peanuts or mixed nuts in a can are fine. So far, none of the major peanut butter brands have been recalled -- they don't buy their raw materials from the contaminated plant.
The only peanut butter brands on the list are Parnell's Pride and King Nut.
Oh thank you, Sunshyne. I'm really hungry for a peanut butter and banana sandwich and my DH will be glad he can still eat his mixed nuts. You are a wonderful resource for us here at Joan's place and I think I found you on the official Alz site message boards. :-)
As I read about all the foods that are contaminated with Salmonella, etc. I wonder why we haven't taken the logical step to be sure our foods are safe. If we irradiated all foods, the bacteria would be killed. This does NOT make the food radioactive and does not change the taste or nutritional value. The main reason we don't do this is because the public is so afraid of anything called radiation. I read a while back that if we radiated our drinking water we would not have to add chlorine, and that if every public water system in the country did that, using spent fuel from nuclear electricity generators, there would not be enough spent fuel produced to keep up with the demand.
I feed Noche Science Diet for Kittens and IAMs for Kittens. Also, Temptations for Cats. I checked that site and they didn't have any of these products listed. I hope he'll be ok. I sure would hate for him to get sick. Is there anything else I should be doing?
Mawzy, just keep your eyes peeled for whatever the next recall will be ... ! Seriously, though, you could check to see if those products have peanut paste in them. (Peanuts for cats? ...although I did find out the hard way that my geri cat loved peanut butter, when I left some spread on toast on a plate out on the table, unprotected. By the time I got back, there was no peanut butter to be seen.)
marsh, I SO agree with you.
I remember reading something back when people first started getting hysterical about nuclear power plants. The person wondered how we would feel about electricity if the first application for it had been the electric chair...