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Thursday, February 15, 2007In other salmonella news, a famous chocolate maker is in hot water. UPDATE: How the CDC honed in on peanut butter: About 85 percent of the infected people said they ate peanut butter, and about a quarter of them ate it at least once a day, the CDC's Lynch said. It was the only food that most of the patients had all recently eaten. "We think there's very strong evidence that it was this brand of peanut butter," Lynch said. Though maybe that would be true of any random sample of people: An estimated 974 million pounds of peanut butter are sold each year in the U.S., and peanut butter and jelly is the most popular sandwich among children. Peter Pan is one of the nation's top three brands, though well behind market leader Jif. Great Value peanut butter is also produced by some other manufacturers for Wal-Mart. In a measure of peanut butter's popularity, ConAgra's hot line was swamped with so many calls after the recall was announced on Wednesday that many people got a busy signal. School officials in Houston confiscated students' sandwiches from home and replaced them with those made at schools. And in Georgia, a lawmaker representing one of the nation's biggest peanut-producing areas warned colleagues to throw out jars of peanut butter that he recently handed out. At least the creme de la creme of peanut butters hasn't been affected. posted by Sydney on 2/15/2007 09:02:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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