Wednesday, January 21, 2009
News Nut investigators locate taint
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Tainted peanut butter linked to six deaths and hundreds of illnesses originated at a plant in Blakely, Georgia, U.S. regulators said.Connecticut officials’ discovery of Salmonella typhimurium bacteria in an unopened tub of King Nut peanut butter from the facility shows contamination didn’t occur after shipping, said Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, on a conference call today with reporters. The plant, operated by closely held Peanut Corp. of America, is the only known source of the outbreak, Sundlof said.
At least 486 people in 43 states and Canada have been infected with the salmonella strain since September, and it may have contributed to six deaths, regulators said. Kellogg Co., NutriSystem Inc. and PetSmart Inc. are among dozens of companies that have recalled more than 125 products because they contain peanut butter or peanut paste from Peanut Corp.
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