you believe it now there recalling peanut butter in different states now!
@littlered361970 (1052)
United States
February 16, 2007 9:10am CST
CONSUMERS ARE BEING ASKED TO THROW AWAY JARS OF PEANUT BUTTER MANUFACTURED AT A PLANT IN SOUTH GEORGIA AFTER A SALMONELLA OUTBREAK.
BUT THEY'RE ALSO BEING TOLD TO SAVE THE JAR LIDS IF THEY WANT A REFUND.
THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON SAYS NOT TO EAT JARS OF PETER PAN OR GREAT VALUE PEANUT BUTTER THAT HAVE THE PRODUCT CODE NUMBER OF 2-1-1-1.
HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE LINKED THE SALMONELLA SCARE TO A PLANT IN SYLVESTER GEORGIA.
OFFICIALS SAY ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF THE 288 INFECTED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED, BUT NONE HAS DIED.
So please be careful no matter where you live! keep and eye out for these types of things ok!
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
16 Feb 07
My mother just sent in 2 jar lids from the identified lot# for refund. My father had 1/2 of one jar gone, and has not been sick, although there have been 5 cases identified in our county. It's going to be interesting to see how this one turns out. They have not definitively identified salmonella in any jars of peanut butter, and as far as I know salmonella is a bacteria found in eggs. There are no eggs in peanut butter, so it is a mystery where this is coming from...
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@lilttownmommie (1473)
• United States
17 Feb 07
It is scary, I had a jar of the Great Value Peanut Butter in my cabinet, my son & I had eaten about half of it & when I heard about this I looked at the jar & it had 2111####### on the lid. I was scared at first, but I thought about it, and we bought the peanut butter back in December, & have been eating it since & have not gotten sick, so I think that we are ok, but it was scary, especially being that we are in Alabama, & more than likely our peanut butter does come from a plant like Georgia or another southern state.
@mom2chriskel (1060)
• United States
17 Feb 07
Yup, my state was among one of the few recalled. I was at the Super Walmart today and there was hardly any peanut butter to be found. Only Jiff and Reeses brand were available.
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@mzbubblie (3839)
• United States
17 Feb 07
Yeah, I have been seeing that alot more and more on the news..
It was so really interesting today at work we had a cake contest..with tickets and there was a peanut butter cake there, nobody asked about the peanut butter but me...
It made me realize how many people really listen or read about the news...they were just going with it...
It's really sad overall, it makes you wonder about the food we consume. What these distributors really do behind closed doors. How far will they go to make money off old stuff or how sterile they are about their products...
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@vmoore709 (1101)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I actually work with someone who had a jar with the serial number that they posted. She had eaten most of the jar already. Luckily she hasn't become ill. I guess she got lucky. It crazy that so much food is being recalled lately. It kind of makes you wonder what's really going on.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
17 Feb 07
I have never been a big penut butter eater but for now on I don't want Peter Pan that is scary. I live right next to Gergia. I am in Florida
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
18 Feb 07
I have a Uncle that got very sick from eating this peanut butter yesterday Peter Pan he had a bad upset stomach. When I heard this I thought of this post.
@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
17 Feb 07
In our state, they say not to throw the peanut butter away. Scavangers will get it and may create a epidemic. Take the whole jar with lid closed to the place you bought it and they will give you a refund and destroy it.
@resasour (378)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I read this article too. I was shocked. It is in 39 states. So I spent yesterday calling all family members. Most of us use Jif, but I had an aunt in one state that has the bad pbutter, (she said it hasnt made them ill though , but she is throwing it away anyhow) and another family in another state that bought two jars of it.
I did not think that peanutbutter could go bad. It makes ya wonder...hhhmmm. lol Little things like this creep up, though I do not think this is so little, but it reminds us to check the dates on cans and packages all throughout the kitchen too, as we have the tendency to forget whats in the back of those cabinets. I pulled some evaporated milk cans out of my moms kitchen that the use by date was 2005!
(my mom passed away last year and had been really ill for two years prior to that) My dad never thinks to look at it, he believes if it is canned it won't go bad. I told him he has no idea how lucky he has been that he hasn't gotten ill. I still would not have ever expected it in peanutbutter though. That did shock me. I guess we can never be too careful when it comes to food though.
@bunnylady01 (483)
• United States
17 Feb 07
Yep! I had one. Used some of it over Christmas time for cookies. Now, I know why everyone that ate those cookies did not feel well. No one got really sick, sick but just a stomach ache. I just threw it away. So sad that even our processing plants with all their so called sanitary procedures etc. still produce products that are unsafe.
@marief2rnurse (2704)
• United States
17 Feb 07
So what brands are these really? The one you have in your pic looks like a Jif container to me. I just made peanut butter cookies with that and didn't have any problems.
@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
17 Feb 07
Good greif what next ? What is the world coming to ? We can't drink the water, we buy bottled water, they say don't eat eggs, then they say Yes eggs are good, don't eat beef, watch for germs etc. etc. etc. I can remember digging worms from the garden to go fishing, and if you were thirsty you went to the garden hose took a drink and back digging worms. You never thought to wash your hands till you came home from fishing, and you ate your lunch you took with you. Very often we'd be in the garden pulling weeds and you wipe the dirt off the carrot and eat it while still pulling weeds. Now a days it's sure not like that. What went wrong.
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I am certainly glad that I do not use Peter Pan Peanut butter for my sandwiches and other items. I am not surprised by this news and wonder what else will be recalled. It seems like a lot of things are being recalled because of this outbreak or other diseases. Thank you for sharing this information and the warning since not everyone is aware of this news.
@chiquita1977 (1706)
• United States
17 Feb 07
yes i have heard about this and my mother in law eats peter pan peanut butter she checked hers and it had the code 2-1-1-1- on it so she thinks that is why she has been getting so sick
@phantom58 (25)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I have been eating Peter Pan PB the no sugar added, I jus finished a jar last week, not sure if this was added to the list, I don't have the jar anymore to tell if this was the recalled one. So far no one got ill from it.
@cabergren (1181)
• United States
17 Feb 07
They are now saying that it is not the peanut butter that is making you sick it is the container that the peanut butter is in. Apparently something contaminated the jars.