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.
An earlier post asked about Little Debbie Nutty Bars. I had the same question. According to the Little Debbie site…
“Following is a complete list of Little Debbie® products which contain peanuts or peanut butter but which are NOT AFFECTED BY THE RECALL:
NUTTY BARS®
NUTTY BAR™ THINS
NUTTY BAR™ SINGLES
NUTTY BAR™ PB STIX
PB&J OATMEAL PIES
PEANUT BUTTER CRUNCH BARS
Even though I work at T.G.I.Friday’s. I recently went to Wal-Mart and stole some nutty bars. I ate 1 bar and then I ended up having the shits for weeks and a horrible flu. I was basically throwing up out of both ends. I got what i deserved…salmonella!!
I became really sick with all the classic signs of Salmonella poisoning after eating a bar. I bought them at Sams Club and ate most of them until the one got me. Came down with severe stomach cramping and severe diahrea including mostly bloody discharge.
Only lasted a couple days but was not fun.
there is a great list of recalled products at the following link - it includes products that are missed out of the FDA’s searchable database list but which are listed in the company recalled list, which I find confusing - I recommend checking it out - it also has a good list of products which are cleared as confirmed by manufacturers and FDA combined.
http://blog.foodessentials.com/outbreak-alert/product-recall-list/
I had nutty bars earlier today and it has been about 11 hours and I have no symptoms, but comments on this made me paranoid. My dad and I have eaten them earlier this week and there is no symptoms. On the website, it states that they were, indeed, not affected by the recall. So I truly hope I’ll be okay. How long until symptoms would occur ?
Your site says:
“Thus far, six people have died as a result of the peanut butter recall for salmonella.”
I highly doubt 6 people have died as a result of the recall. 6 people have died from the salmonella, but not the recall. Unless those people then had nothing else to eat after the recall.
And that would be tragic.
Good point Henry. I’ll correct the sentence.
Curse you Little Debbie, and your sloppy unsanitary peanut outsourcing!
I’m sitting here on a Friday night looking at bare cabinets, hunger pangs, and a delicous box of unopened Little Debbie Nutty Bars staring back at me.
Into the garbage chute you go!
Well at least they aren’t made in China, YET.
Its kind of poetic really, my job and so many others outsourced and H1-B’d away, then the slave labor overseas factories poison us with their lax or nonexistent food regulations.
It all works out!
;0)~
I know here in our area, their is a stomach bug going around. And most people sick, didn’t eat any “Little Debbie” products. I know their is concern, but not all products with Peanut Butter is bad.
Had nutty bars 2 weeks ago, before recall was announced. And guess what got sick w abdominal cramps, fever, and diarrhea. So are the corporations telling the feds the truth? What do you think, its all about the money! If they cared about the consumer they would have inspectors on their dime inspect the facilities. So what do you do, go with common sense to the store.