Little Debbie Adds Snack Food to Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall
I would never in a million years feed my children Little Debbie products, but I remember eating them as a child.
Yesterday, Little Debbie announced the recall of its snack products containing peanut butter due to concerns of salmonella contamination.
Salmonella can be deadly, especially to children, and the company has responded with a voluntary recall of cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods with peanut butter. The focus of the recall is peanut paste, in addition to peanut butter, produced at Peanut Corp.’s Blakely, Ga., facility. The peanut paste, made from roasted peanuts, which is often an ingredient in cookies, cakes and other products. Little Debbie has included its Peanut Butter Cheese sandwich cookies and Peanut Butter Toasty sandwich crackers in the recall.
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Thus far, six people have died as a result of salmonella contaminated peanut butter that has been recalled.
As part of this recent outbreak, 470 people have gotten and at least 90 have been hospitalized. Salmonella is the most common form of food poisoing in the US. I guess it is time to start making peanut butter the old fashioned way at home.
My ? would be, does this contain the Little Debbie Nutty Bars. i need to know ASAP, since i just purchased a box this past week-end for my children.
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Rebecca, according to the Little Debbie press release that is linked to in the post, no. But as a parent, I would not eat it or feed it to my child to be cautious.
I called Sam’s today since I purchased some this weekend. They are not on the recall list but they said they will gladly take them back even though I opened and ate some. I will return on tomorrow.
i believe that 4 people in our family became sick from the little debbie nutty bars. most recent our daughter ate one (one stick) and became sick the follwing morning.(very crampy, and a liquid stool).we all felt the same but didn’t put 2 and 2 togather.
Don’t believe hersay and 15th hand news…go to the source: http://www.mckeefoods.com/
This is a voluntary recall and McKay is specific in what is ok and what not to eat.
@Andy I say do believe in the hersay because sometimes it’s the only way you can find out the truth b/c companies are hiding and protecting themselves. Voluntary is just so they can look better.
Great post Jennifer, thank you. Scary.
I don’t think the Nutty Bars are on the list YET, but if they do go, I will still eat them. No one is taking my Nutty Bars away from me.
No the nutty bars are not include because those cracker they buy them from others company ..the nutty bar they make it then self
My husband just got sick and just recently had the nutty bars, but according to the website the nutty bars are safe…. so I dont know if it is a coincidence or not.