Some Peanut Products Are Poison. Recalls In USA Continue Daily.

I don't know if they exported the batch of peanut paste or peanut butter to other countries. I wonder if they have exported any of the products into Canada?

But, their first recall was in August...who can tell how many people were sickened and never got sick enough to go to the doctors.

I have had food poisoning once and it was no fun. But, I didn't have to go to the doctors for it.

It's so strange they don't really announce the new recalls in the news very often, given how many people have become ill in many places in the USA.

Salmonella usually comes from meat and dairy products and also from contaminated water and even in peanut plants themselves. I wonder how salmonella got into peanut paste. What's in peanut paste, any how?

Was their water contaminated?

The only information I can find is for peanut butter only, not peanut paste. From what I have discovered, salt, sugar and oil are usually the only added ingredients.

I wonder if we will ever find out what exactly caused salmonella in peanut paste....could it have been the water?

This happened with Con Agra in 2007 with Peter Pan and True Value Brands of peanut butter...but this recall even includes ICE CREAM!

What is it that makes peanuts so strange?

I mean, here in France, people in general don't eat peanut butter because they say it's too fatty and can make you ill. It's very difficult to find in the shops, snif.

I think it's great. I have always eaten peanut and cucumber sandwiches in white bread sandwiches, and I always will. Like weetabix and milk and bananas. Moreover, my god daughter, who is French, loves it. But she can only get it when she comes to my place..

Who the hell has it in for peanuts?!!!! Peanuts are like whichever side you support in the Gaza conflict. They always get bad and biased press!

(But, more seriously, this is worrying........)

Thanks for this post.......

Oh no, now even Little Debbie's gone bad!

And I just added the recall from The Chocolate Company located in South Bend, Indiana. They make candy and sell it in 4 and 5 pound bags to small retailers who re-bag it themselves...I have a friend who got sick after Christmas and was sick for two weeks. He didn't have health insurance and had to go to the emergency room. The bill was $6000.00 and they said they couldn't find anything wrong with him.

I have asked him to find out if they tested him for salmonella. He was so sick for two weeks and even after.

I imagine there are lots of people who get sick and they never even know it's salmonella. He is calling the lab tomorrow to see if they tested him for it.

He said he was so sick that he wished he would die...but the doctors said they could not find anything wrong with him.

I imagine this recall is going to widen.  

Hard to believe that only in the last couple of decades this has become a problem. I blame it on environmental and unatural additives in foods which began in the late 60s and 70s. No one heard of peanut allergies before that I know of until the 80s

A variety of the popular Luna bars have also been recalled.

Thanks, Barbara...it's difficult to keep up with all the recalls.

This is so scary - thanks for all the updates.

It always happens that the report is of isolated cases at first but the slow eventual expansion is inevitable. However we hardly ever get the full story with root cause. When we do it is often questionable as the actual root cause.

I emailed the Center For Disease control and asked them if the nationwide outbreak of "stomach" virus could really be salmonella poisoning and they told me that unless a doctor reports an illness as salmonella, there is no way they can tell.

One would think that the CDC would ASK doctors to start testing people to find out if everyone is getting salmonella poisoning or not.

So, basically, the stomach "virus" outbreak could really be people getting salmonella, then spreading it.

A person can be a carrier for a long time after they are over the symptoms.

We have a great CDC to be doing something about this to try to stop the spread of salmonella. (NOT!)

How do I know that Boyers candy's are not tainted? Please reply.

Hi. My computer was in the shop for major repairs. Sorry I have not kept this article updated.

You can go to this link and ask the company yourself.

http://www.boyercandies.com/boyer_contact_us.php

That is what I would suggest.

This is an economic disaster for many companies and just goes to show the dangers of how large corporations can affect the food supply versus small local area producers and suppliers which do not affect as large a market when problems arise. A professor of mine who taught biology told us 25 years ago that these sort of problems were going to occur in our society with the loss of small family farms and large corporate farms. He was right. He told us that more people across the country would get sick, versus a smaller area population as larger food producers and processors took over our food production. I have watched his prediction come true over the years.

"Bigger does not necessarily mean better."

The big picture is? THE LIFE THREATENING POTENTIAL TOO US ALL.......

Hi,I would like to no if it is ok to start giving my 4 kids peanut butter? They love it but sence the out break they havent eaten any.ps sherie