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30 to 85 Companies that Bought Peanut Butter or Peanut Paste Tainted with Salmonella have been urged by FDA to Halt Sales

Posted on January 16, 2009
According to the AP, the FDA is expanding its investigation of peanut products in a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds and killed at least six.  In addition, the FDA is notifying 30 to 85 companies that bought peanut butter or peanut paste from a Georgia facility to test their products and asked to consider halting sales...

Another Peanut Butter Death - The Toll Now reaches six - Idaho, Minnesota, Virginia and North Carolina

Posted on January 16, 2009
Today, the CDC reported 453 persons (454 if you count the Canadian) infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 43 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arizona (9), Arkansas (4), California (60), Colorado (10), Connecticut (8), Georgia (6), Hawaii (1), Idaho (10), Illinois (5), Indiana (3), Iowa (1), Kansas (2), Kentucky (3), Maine (4), Maryland (7), Massachusetts (40), Michigan (25), Minnesota (33), Missouri (8), Mississippi (1), Nebraska (1), New Hampshire (11), New Jersey (18), New York (18), Nevada (5), North Carolina (4), North Dakota (10), Ohio (57), Oklahoma (2), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (13), Rhode Island (4), South Dakota (2), Tennessee (8), Texas (6), Utah (4), Vermont (4), Virginia (20), Washington (13), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (3), and Wyoming (2)...

Just what you need - a Marler Widget

Posted on January 15, 2009

Come to the United States on Vacation and bring home Salmonella

Posted on January 15, 2009
Usually, we would be making such a bad joke after being on vacation in a sunny spot with umbrella drinks, or listening to Lou Dobbs rant about someone importing some disease into the US.  Now we poison people in the US with Salmonella while vacationing before they head home...

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Lab Tests Show Salmonella Likely at Peanut Corporation of America

Posted on January 15, 2009
According to AP, as they say, the knoose tightens.

Toll Rising - 448 sickened with Peanut Butter Salmonella Typhimurium - 99 Hospitalized and 5 Deaths

Posted on January 15, 2009
The CDC just reported that the number now is 448 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 43 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arizona (8), Arkansas (4), California (60), Colorado (10), Connecticut (8), Georgia (6), Hawaii (1), Idaho (10), Illinois (5), Indiana (3), Iowa (1), Kansas (2), Kentucky (3), Maine (4), Maryland (7), Massachusetts (40), Michigan (25), Minnesota (33), Missouri (8), Mississippi (1), Nebraska (1), New Hampshire (11), New Jersey (18), New York (18), Nevada (5), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (10), Ohio (57), Oklahoma (2), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (13), Rhode Island (4), South Dakota (2), Tennessee (8), Texas (6), Utah (3), Vermont (4), Virginia (20), Washington (13), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (3), and Wyoming (2)...

The Sordid Saga of the Slaughterhouse Suing the Church Continues - What the Food Chain Should Learn

Posted on January 15, 2009
I am holed up in my hotel in Minneapolis preparing for a meeting Friday morning with the lawyers for the defendants in the Nebraska Beef case.  Also, working on the Cargill E. coli and the recent Peanut Butter Salmonella cases.  It is 20 below zero outside...

The Cracks in Mass-Manufactured Products are Showing - Kellogg Pulls Peanut Butter Snacks - Kudos to Kellogg

Posted on January 14, 2009
A lot of cases of 5 to 50lb tubs of peanut butter travel a long way.  According to Reuters, Kellogg is was removing its Austin and Keebler branded peanut butter snacks from store shelves and put a hold their shipments due to the current Salmonella food poisoning outbreak...

Five Deaths in Salmonella Peanut Butter Outbreak including Army veteran Clifford Tousignant of Brainerd, Minnesota

Posted on January 14, 2009
People should not die from eating peanut butter.  According to the Brainerd Dispatch and AP, health officials in Idaho and Minnesota are reporting two more deaths associated with a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 425 people in 43 states...

City of Blakely, home of Peanut Corporation of America - "The Peanut Capital of the World" - Might another name be in the offing?

Posted on January 14, 2009
Blakely seems like such a nice town.  It was incorporated October 24, 1870. Blakely, the county seat of Early County, was named for Captain Johnson Blakely of North Carolina, who was lost at sea on the U.S.S. Wasp in the War of 1812. The Early County courthouse in Blakely was built around 1905 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

Peanut Corporation of American and King Nut Linked to Idaho Salmonella Death

Posted on January 14, 2009
Previously, three deaths in this outbreak had been confined to Minnesota and Virginia along with 425 people sick in 43 states.  Now another dead person is counted in Idaho along with nine other ill ranging in age from 3 to 81, and all illnesses occurred between October and mid-December...

Vilsack before the Senate Agriculture Committee - UPDATE - almost live blogging

Posted on January 14, 2009
Well, I get to follow the testimony via the Blackberry's of two folks sitting in the hearing, the live webcast and Phil Brasher's Blog - while sitting at my kitchen counter watching the Sun rise. Have not heard much on food safety.  I know "Change is on the way...

Peanut Corporation of America Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Salmonella Peanut Butter

Posted on January 13, 2009
As of a few moments ago, 15 more cases of salmonella poisoning in the now nationwide outbreak have been reported, bringing the total to 425 in 43 state with 3 deaths.  Nearly 18% of the victims have been hospitalized.  Praise to Peanut Corporation Corporation for the Recall...

I'm always too far ahead - redo of GMA slides.

Posted on January 13, 2009
I should never do slides early because there is always something to add in.  Today I added in the recent Salmonella outbreak - what's next?

410 sickened, 74 hospitalized and 3 deaths linked to Salmonella Typhimurium - tainted peanut butter and we have dueling Press Releases?

Posted on January 13, 2009
Minnesota’s “Team Diarrhea’s” release seems pretty straight forward; we have 30 people sick and most have an epidemiological exposure to King Nut Brand Creamy Peanut Butter, and the peanut butter tested positive for Salmonella Typhimurium, which matches the 30 people and the other 380 in the United States...

Food Safety on Obama's To Do List

Posted on January 13, 2009
The GAO lists Food Safety on Obama's To Do List - among a few other small things: Many of the urgent policy concerns identified here are critical and time sensitive and require prioritized federal action. They are issues that require a focus from the transition team and new administration because if they are not dealt with, they could have great implications for life, well being, or the confidence of citizens in government, or because they have key quickly approaching dates where a decision must be made or actions taken...

Virginia and Minnesota Death Linked to Salmonella Peanut Butter - CDC, FDA, King Nut and Peanut Corporation of America, still no response to my TO DO LIST?

Posted on January 13, 2009
Three deaths associated with a national salmonella outbreak occurred in Virginia and Minnesota, health officials confirmed today.  Two adults in Virginia had salmonella when they died, though it’s not clear that the illness is what killed them, said a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Health...

Room (a.k.a Office) with a View

Posted on January 13, 2009
I actually seldom take the time to look out the window, but here is this morning's view of Elliott Bay (nearly brown) from the run-off from the Duwamish River.

King Nut Can of Peanut Butter Positive for Salmonella Typhimurium

Posted on January 13, 2009

FDA Scientists Complain to Obama of 'Corruption'

Posted on January 13, 2009
In an unusually blunt letter, a group of federal scientists is complaining to the Obama transition team of widespread managerial misconduct in a division of the Food and Drug Administration. "The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the scientific review process for medical devices at the FDA has been corrupted and distorted by current FDA managers, thereby placing the American people at risk," said the letter, dated Wednesday and written on the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health letterhead...

Salmonella recovered from King Nut peanut butter by MDA lab found to be a genetic match to cases in national Salmonella outbreak

Posted on January 12, 2009
News Release The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health today announced that laboratory analyses have confirmed a genetic match between the strains of Salmonella bacteria found in a container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter and the strains of bacteria associated with 30 illnesses in Minnesota and nearly 400 illnesses around the country...

Salmonella Typhimurium in King Nut Peanut Butter Linked to 410 Ill in 43 States - Three Deaths

Posted on January 12, 2009
The CDC reports that 410 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 43 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arizona (8), Arkansas (3), California (55), Colorado (9), Connecticut (6), Georgia (5), Hawaii (1), Idaho (10), Illinois (5), Indiana (4), Iowa (1), Kansas (2), Kentucky (3), Maine (4), Maryland (7), Massachusetts (40), Michigan (20), Minnesota (30), Missouri (8), Mississippi (1), Nebraska (1), New Hampshire (10), New Jersey (13), New York (12), Nevada (6), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (10), Ohio (53), Oklahoma (2), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (12), Rhode Island (4), South Dakota (2), Tennessee (9), Texas (5), Utah (3), Vermont (4), Virginia (17), Washington (11), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (3), and Wyoming (2)...

People get Salmonella Typhimurium from eating Peanut Butter, Minnesota points the finger at King Nut, who points the finger at Peanut Corporation of America, so what is next?

Posted on January 11, 2009
Minnesota Department of Health announces late Friday that the have linked thirty illnesses ( and a death) to the consumption of King Nut Peanut Butter (and Parnell's Pride?).  There is nothing on the CDC website or other State Health Department sites naming names - yet...

Peanut Corporation of America

Posted on January 11, 2009
From a Self-serving Press Release: January 10th, 2009 -- Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) today expressed its deep concern about the apparent finding of salmonella in a container of one of its products distributed in Minnesota, and its commitment to continue working with U...

Hey, What is it with Georgia and Salmonella Peanut Butter?

Posted on January 11, 2009
I like rural Georgia, even more so now that Lynchburg, Virginia based Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) said that they actually made the product - 5-pound tubs of peanut butter for "King Nut" and "Parnell's Pride" in its Blakely, Georgia Plant...

Looking for a "Food Jesus" - It is not going to happen.

Posted on January 10, 2009
We always expect someone to solve our problems.  Or if we simply better organize the problems, they will fade away.  It will not happen.  Andy Martin of the New York Times and I talked about his article "Looking to Obama to Bring Logic to Food Safety"  I think he wanted to write yet another article about moving towards a single food safety agency...

Customers are asked to take all King Nut peanut butter and Parnell's Pride peanut butter distributed by King Nut out of distribution immediately due to Salmonella contamination

Posted on January 10, 2009
In yet another post on its website, King Nut Companies, a distributor of peanut butter manufactured for them by Peanut Corporation of America, today announced a recall of peanut butter distributed under the King Nut label. King Nut took this action as soon as it was informed that salmonella had been found in an open five-pound tub of King Nut peanut butter...

We know that King Nut's Peanut Corporation of American Peanut Butter is the source of the illnesses - Now, the question is how it became contaminated with Salmonella Typhimurium?

Posted on January 10, 2009
From the Pages of Washington State University VetMed Department: Salmonella Typhimurium is more cosmopolitan, commonly infecting a wide range of animal species worldwide. Of the 19,483 salmonella isolates obtained from agricultural animals in the United States that were submitted to the USDA for typing during a recent year, 23% were Salmonella Typhimurium, the most common serovar...

Kudos to Michael Kanan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of King Nut - Recall Announced of 5 lb. tubs of Salmonella - tainted Peanut Butter Manufactured for King Nut by Peanut Corporation of America

Posted on January 10, 2009
Press Release For: Immediate Release Date: January 10, 2009 Subject: Salmonella found in King Nut Peanut Butter manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (Solon, Ohio) King Nut Companies, a distributor of peanut butter produced by Peanut Corporation of America, announces today that Salmonella has been found in their 5 lb...

CDC Updates Its Website (and numbers of ill), but does not name King Nut Peanuts as source of Salmonella Typhimurium 2008-2009 Outbreak

Posted on January 10, 2009
So, Minnesota's "Team Diarrhea" announced yesterday that they figured out that is was 5lb buckets of King Nut Peanut Butter which was causing its 30 citizens to get sick with the exact same genetic Salmonella Typhimurium which is sickening the other 369 in the rest of the country...

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