Peanut Butter Recall!!

In the article I recently read, it talked about companies recalling their peanut butter products. Many items such as cookies, crackers, ice cream, and candy have been removed from shelves at stores because of contamination. Out of all 50 states, 43 of them were effected by this. These peanut butter treats are causing salmonella typhimurium and have sickened over 486 people and have killed six. It says that foods such as, "Famous Amos' peanut butter cookies, Wal-Mart's peanut butter fudge, Little Debbie sandwich crackers, Blanton's Peanut Butter Sticks, Meijer's peanut butter cup ice cream, and Austin's cheese and peanut butter crackers have been recalled,". Also, the first illnesses of this were reported on September 8th. In addition, the FDA was going through peanut plants and checking the condition of them so they can find out which plant is the source of the bad peanuts. However, they found one in Georgia that had some violations, and it was one of the sources of this problem. In my opinion, this is a very serious situation because peanut butter is found in almost all of the foods we consume. I also think it is very serious because the article says, "The average American consumes more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter products each year,". Therefore, many people were effected by this recall. Plus, I believe it was very smart for the FDA to search different peanut processing plants so they could find the place that was manufacturing bad peanuts and help avoid more people from getting sick. All in all, this was what the article I read said about the recalled peanuts and my opinion about it.

I found all my information from:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/peanut.probe.salmonella/index.html