FDA Peanut-Product Recall Expands

As the FDA’s recall of peanuts and peanut-related products, due to possible salmonella contamination, continues to grow, food manufacturers are coming out of the woodwork voluntarily recalling some of their peanut-related products before the FDA can do so. Below are the companies, so far, that have volunteered:

• Abbott Nutrition
• ALDI
• Allegro Fine Foods, Inc.
• Amway Global
• Arbonne International LLC
• Arico Natural Foods Company
• Aspen Hills, Inc.
• Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
• Aurora Products, Inc.
• Austinuts Wholesale, Inc.
• Bass Pro Shops
• Bear Naked
• Bear Stewart Corporation
• Best Brands Corp.
• Bindi North America
• Blanton’s Candies
• Blue Ribbon Products Inc.
• Boca Grande Foods Inc.
• Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores
• Brent and Sam’s
• Broughton Foods
• Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.
• Casey’s General Stores, Inc.
• Chef Jay’s Food Products
• Cherrydale Manufacturing LLC
• Clif Bar & Company
• Country Life Natural Foods
• Country Maid, Inc.
• Creative Energy Foods, Inc.
• Crown Pacific Fine Foods
• CVS/pharmacy
• Dinners Ready of Meridian, ID
• Dough-To-Go, Inc.
• Dutch Valley Food Development, Inc.
• Earth Island
• East Side Entrees
• Eillien’s Candies, Inc.
• Evening Rise Bread Co.
• Falcon Trading Company/SunRidge Farms
• Fieldbrook Foods Corp.
• Forward Foods LLC
• The Galliker Dairy Co.
• General Mills
• General Nutrition Centers, Inc.
• Genisoy Food Company
• Georgia Peanut Commission
• Giant Food LLC
• GKI Foods Inc.
• GloryBee Foods, Inc.
• Grand Rapids Popcorn
• The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
• Harry and David
• H-E-B
• Hershey Creamery Company
• House of Flavors Ice Cream Company
• HP Hood LLC
• Hudsonville Creamery and Ice Cream Co.
• Hy-Vee Inc.
• Ice Cream Specialties
• Isagenics International LLC
• ISS Research, LLC
• Jenny Craig, Inc.
• Jimmy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, Inc.
• Kashi
• Kellogg Company
• Kemps LLC
• Kerry Ingredients & Flavours
• The Kroger Company
• Landies Candies
• LesserEvil Brand Snack Co.
• Lovin Oven, LLC
• Madelaine Chocolate Novelties, Inc.
• Marathon Ventures, Inc.
• McKee Foods Corporation
• Meijer
• Mountain Man Nut & Fruit Company
• Nash Finch
• Nature’s Path Organic Foods
• The Nut Bar Company
• NutriSystem Inc.
• Nutrition Research Group/Advanced Nutrient Science
• Ocean Spray
• Orchard Valley Harvest
• Palmer Candy Company
• Parker Products, Inc.
• Pecan Deluxe Candy Company
• Perry’s Ice Cream Company
• Pierre’s Ice Cream Company
• Prairie Farms Dairy
• Premier Nutrition, Inc.
• PriceRite Supermarkets
• Promedis
• Publix Supermarkets
• Purity Dairies
• Rain Creek Baking Corporation
• Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products, Inc.
• Ready Pac Foods, Inc.
• Rucker’s Candy
• Sara Lee North American Foodservice
• Save-A-Lot Food Stores
• Schwan’s Global Supply Chain, Inc.
• ShopRite Supermarkets
• Simbree Energy Foods
• SOPAKCO, Inc.
• The South Bend Chocolate Company
• Standard Candy Company
• Stewart’s Shops
• SUPERVALU INC.
• The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company
• Supreme Protein, Inc.
• Sweet Success Fundraising, Inc.
• Thrift Products Co.
• Trader Joe’s
• Tropical Nut and Fruit Company
• Turkey Hill Dairy
• Umpqua Dairy Products Co.
• Uncle Eddies Vegan Cookies
• Unilever United States, Inc.
• U.S. Army
• Velvet Ice Cream
• Walgreens
• Weaver Popcorn Company
• Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
• Weis Markets
• Wells Dairy, Inc.
• Werner Gourmet Meat Snacks Inc.
• Whole Foods Market
• WinCo Foods
• Wonder Ice Cream Company
• Zachary Confections, Inc.

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Green Road A.

1:20PM PST on Feb 11, 2009

The recall list is now up to 1,900 products.. 2/9/09

The top brass refused to testify in front of Congress, pleading the 5th... This does not sound like an innocent victim with accidental contamination..

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1029346

1:15PM PST on Feb 11, 2009

So if it is NOT the rats and mice, why do federal laws and rules ALLOW rat and mice hair, feces and insect parts in peanut butter?

Why are these things normally found in peanut butter, some much more than others?

Once you grind it all up, it is hard to see, but my opinion is that this plant did have rats, mice, droppings, and cockroaches in there, plus potentially other stuff too...but ignored them.

The news report I heard today on MSNBC is that the plant KNEW it was contaminated but they wanted to make a profit, so they ground it up and sold it anyway. Why throw away tons of peanuts, just because a test came up positive?

How else would deadly salmonella not normally found in peanuts end up in peanut products?

Dirk B.

9:05PM PST on Feb 9, 2009

It's not the rats.
How many salomella infested rats(or roaches)woul'd it it take produce an epidemic of this scale? The salmonella contamination at this plant has occured over several years. Blaming it on cockroaches abd rats is to easy. There had to be some other method of contamination for this to occur.

Ghouse M.

9:29AM PST on Feb 7, 2009

Is Peanut products good for Heat Patients?

Evelyn G.

5:10AM PST on Feb 7, 2009

It is good to get this list from you so people can be protected. I will share this with the readers of my website so they can be alerted. Quite a few diabetics consume peanut butter regularly because it is one food item that has been recommended for them to eat as safe.

Evelyn Guzman
http://www.free-symptoms-of-diabetes-alert.com (If you want to visit, just click but if it doesn’t work, copy and paste it onto your browser.)

Poppy M.

2:25AM PST on Feb 7, 2009

My understanding is the roasting of the raw peanuts is what usually kills the salmonella. So, I would personally stay away from the raw ones right now. I love Jif and Smuckers PB and there have been no problems with either so far.

Veronica P.

1:08PM PST on Feb 6, 2009

Randolph,
So far, this is a list of the companies that have voluntarily recalled their peanut-related products. It's very possible that the list may grow...

Randolph D.

11:34AM PST on Feb 6, 2009

I actually heard from a former worker at the now closed plant that it was rats AND roaches getting ground up in there with the peanuts for who knows how long. I'm a little shocked at Trader Joes ending up on that list. It makes me wonder just how many other of their products are just 3rd party labeling. And why isn't Safeway and Lucky's on that list? They do all kinds of house brand, 3rd party labeling.