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J.M. Smucker Co. is recalling thousands of 16-ounce jars of its Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter Chunky because of possible salmonella contamination.
The Ohio-based company says the jars covered in the recall would have been purchased in the last week or so. They have "Best if Used By" dates of Aug. 3, 2012 and Aug. 4, 2012, plus the production codes 1307004 and 1308004.
Smucker says 3,000 jars are being recalled from stores. Another 16,000 had never left warehouses.
Salmonella is bacteria resulting in fever, cramps and diarrhea that lasts for several days and can require hospitalization.
Smucker says no illnesses have been reported.
The product was distributed in: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
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Okay, not sure whether to be relieved that our food safety enforcement is improving, because we're catching on to all these contaminated foods, or worried because they keep getting contaminated in the FIRST place! When are food manufacturers going to get a clue???
Can you imagine; the Republicans want to curb or do away with government (regulations) restrictions on businesses. They also want to limit your ability to be able to sue a manufacture (corporation).
There needs to be more stringent government controls placed on big business for the safety and welfare of its citizenry.
Yeah because what is needed in this economy is more rules and regulations. NOT. And I follow politics and have not heard any Republicans calling for less food regulations. They are indicating having less regulations on Wall Street type companies, not those businesses overlooked by the FDA.
Perhaps you liberals would be better served to ask yourself why we spend millions and millions on the FDA and yet they consistently fail the public? That's a better question..
Check Rand Paul....In a 2008 PBS KET discussion...."If it's not violent, it should not be against the law". That means Madoff, Abranoff, and Enron execs would still be walking around today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was a voluntary recall by the company which was not mandated by any regulatory agency. The majority of recall reports these days have been initiated by the company after they perform QC checks, not by the regulator. That's the way it should be, industry is regulating itself based on EXISTING regs, no need for more.
Awww hell, I was planning on making peanut butter cookies and fudge too . . .
"Smucker's recalls peanut butter for contamination"
Recalled "because" of contamination or "due to" contamination makes sense, but to recall it "for" contamination makes it sound like they forgot to contaminate it in the first place.
"With a name like Smucker's, it's got to be bad."
Maybe if companies would go back to smaller plants and put more time in the schedule for cleaning some of this wouldn't happen.
They make one big plant so if it has any problem a whole lot of product is bad.
Smuckers is on the wrong side of the bread! They make jelly dammit! Jelly!
Shaunh2o,
Ask yourself this...why have the Reps. every time in office, cut the staff of the FDA more than half, so they can't fully do their jobs?
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million Americans get sick from tainted food every year. Of those, about 28,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die, the government says."
Do yourself a favor and do some research on something before you post. There are 9300 employees at the FDA to oversee how many food plants? Hundreds of thousands......protecting 300 million Americans.....think that is enough? If so, tell that to the 28K families of the people that died last year from food illnesses, that could have been avoided with more FDA Inspectors.
There's already a peanut shortage due to the floods, droughts, etc... that is raising prices and availability as it is. I'm happy the recall is in place to protect the public, but this couldn't happen at a worse time for consumers.
i just @!$%# myself silly for 3 days....sure its just the chunky?
Smuckers makes the best natural peanut butter. Its the cheap peanut butter out there that probably has salmonella more often but isn't inspected well enough to find it.
Yes, usually FDA cannot force a recall..to do so takes lot's of work (or used to)...most recalls are voluntary, if not all. Although, the FDA can make it very difficult if a company doesn't take their "suggestion"...
I am concerned about the causes of these "incidents", especially in the light where FDA wants to eradicate ALL natural foods, and anything healthy, and force consumers to buy the toxic-laden, corporate brands which hardly have any nutritional value at all. Be aware of the "rattlesnakes" in DC !!!!!