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.
Same here. Ate a Nutty Buddy from the office vending machine and have been sick with diarrhea 3x since. Bit of nausea, bit of a fever, etc…..
I grew up eating Nutty Bars…I love (loved) them. I bought a pack earlier this week to give to my kids (I figured they would like them just as much as I did). Well, I gave one bar to my 2 yr old son…he at half of it and has been sick since (diahrea mainly). I threw them away
I work for McKee Foods, manufacturer of Little Debbie products. I assure you that Little Debbie Nutty Bars are not made with peanut butter sourced form the Peanut Corporation of America. Nor are the other products we make that use peanut butter.
If the Nutty Bars were contaminated, then we would be hearing people say they are getting sick off the other products as well. No one is saying, “I ate a Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bar and got sick.” Nor are they saying, “I ate a Little Debbie PB&J Oatmeal Pie and got sick.”
These products all use the same peanut butter that we manufacture in-house as the Nutty Bars. How could a contamination limit itself to one product when the peanut butter all comes from the same place.
Our Little Debbie products that contain peanut butter are not affected by the PCA peanut product contamination investigation.
Mike Gloekler,
McKee Foods Corp.
From Little Debbie:
If Nutty Bars were in fact making people sick, then all our peanut
butter products would be making people sick since they all get peanut
butter from the same batch. But no one is claiming to have been made
sick from Peanut Butter Crunch Bars or PB&J Oatmeal Pies.
Nutty Bars have become an easy target because they are so well-known as
a Little Debbie product. None of our peanut-containing products are
affected by the recall. We do not source peanut butter from PCA.
Thank you,
Mike Gloekler
Communications & Public Relations Manager
Since Nutty Bars are so well known, maybe no one else is eating those other “contaminated” products…thus, not getting sick from “not” eating them? I’m just saying that my son is still sick…maybe from bad milk? But he only drinks the name brand milk…so how can we tell? But thanks for the follow-up.
My son is 14 and ate Nutty Buddy Bar on Saturday and has been havaing severe dirrhea and vomiting since. Went to the ER for IV fluids las night (Monday) and they are testing him for salmonella today. He is VERY sick.