Smuckers Recalls Tons Of Chunky Salmonella Peanut Butter

Is no peanut butter sacred?! Months after two kinds of Skippy were recalled, fellow PB giant Smuckers is recalling thousands of jars of its Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter Chunky because of possible salmonella contamination.

The 3,000 jars in question would have been purchased in "the last week or so," and they have “Best if Used By” dates of Aug. 3, 2012 and Aug. 4, 2012, plus the production codes 1307004 and 1308004.

The jars were sent to stores in New York and New Jersey, plus Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington, DC. That's a lot of sandwich-making material.

So far, no illnesses have been reported, which puts peanut butter 56 steps ahead of chicken liver.

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By Jamie Feldmar in Food on November 17, 2011 11:37 AM

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Nos Feratu

Last couple of years I been buy my PB from Trader Joes. Ingredients of TJ's PB: Peanuts, salt.

Eggcream

One of the worst-tasting brands you can buy. Last time I ate some wasn't recently but it tasted like some kind of chemical concoction from the movie Soylent Green.

Peanut_Butter

I recently looked at Smuckers on the supermarket shelf. When did they start to use HFCS? So disappointing.

SFNY

Huh? That stuff is only peanuts and salt. And salmonella sometimes.

Peanut_Butter

chuckle....their jam, I meant.

SFNY

Oh, yeah, their jam has gone downhill.

Bonne Maman Four Fruit Preserves is the way to go.

RammyH

Serves them right - Chunky peanut butter is an abomination. What sort of person wants a "chunky" spread?

A commie, that's who.

Peanut_Butter

Made me LOL. Seriously, "chunky" equals "unspreadable". It's for retards.

SFNY

Smooth peanut butter has no soul.

whodiditandran

The person who likes junk in their gunk.

SpideySense

I purchased that item, but not recently. I guess "natural" can also mean salmonella.

Trustafarian

how the hell does salmonella get in peanut butter?

bggb

It's certainly a risk of what happens when food production gets concentrated in the hands of a few massive corporations.

Guest

Yeah, because it could never happen to small corporations.

bggb

the risk is exponentially smaller, thank you for helping to prove my point.

Guest

Your point wasn't proven at all. Just because it's a small corporation doesn't mean the risk is exponentially smaller (just because small and smaller are similar words, it doesn't mean they can be used to prove your point). I'm betting the percentages of problems such as this would be about the same. But I know you want to vilify large corporations and that's very OWS of you; pat yourself on the back for the attempt.

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bggb

No, it actually does mean the risks are smaller.

If a company specializes in a handful of products, and they get salmonella in their factory, only those handful of products are at risk.

If a giant company produces a thousand products in a massive factory, the risk of contamination is much higher larger.

Guest

No, it doesn't. We're talking about ONE product that was affected. Are you still willing to stick with your failing argument?

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bggb

That in no way refuted my point.

When more food is produced from increasingly consolidated sources, the risk for wider contamination grows.

Len_Drexler

The risk for wider contamination from one incident certainly goes up. But that's not the same thing as saying total probability for contamination is higher. If there were no large producers of peanut butter and the entire market was satisfied by 10,000 small producers can you say with absolute certainty that the risk of contamination in any given jar of peanut butter is lower?