This is affecting a variety of products, including Clif Bars Peanut, and Clif Bar PBCC, Trioplex Cookies Peanut Buter, Premier Titan Peanut, Promax Cookie Dough, Think Thin Choc Mudslide, and Think Thin Dark Chocolate, and Zoneperfect Peanut Butter.
Note - not every item is Peanut, and it matters by lot numbers and batches. And only items that came from PCofAmerican...
Food and Drug Administration officials called for a recall of all products containing peanut butter, peanut paste and peanut oil manufactured since Jan. 1, 2007 at the Blakely, Ga., processing center operated by Peanut Corp. of America.
That could vastly increase the number of recalled food and other products in the nation’s consumer supply.
Additional strains of salmonella also have been detected at the plant, although federal officials emphasized they have confirmed no illnesses beyond those associated with the current Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak.
"The outbreak is still ongoing and has decreased modestly even as the number of recalls have gone up,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director, of the division of foodborne, bacterial and mycotic diseases in the National Center for Zoonotic Vectorborne and Enteric Diseases.
More than 500 people have gotten sick in the outbreak, which has been linked to at least eight deaths. More than 400 products containing peanut butter or peanut paste have been recalled so far. They range from Asian-style cooking sauces, to ice cream, to dog treats.
“It’s among the largest recalls that we’ve had,” said Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “We don’t have a good idea how much of that product is still out there.”
The FDA has set up a searchable Web site that identifies recalled products. People without internet access can call the CDC information line at 1-800-CDC-INFO.
Jarred peanut butter still likely safe
Major national manufacturers of peanut butter say they did not purchase products from PCA, so jarred peanut butter still appears to be safe, said Sundlof.
“People should not be concerned about national name brand peanut butter in jars in stores.”
