Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crackers Recalled

Source: AP

Health Officials Urge People To Avoid Peanut Butter Products

POSTED: 10:59 am EST January 18, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Now it's some Little Debbie peanut butter crackers that are being recalled because there's a chance of salmonella contamination.

That's the word Sunday from McKee Foods Corp. of Collegedale, Tenn.

The voluntary recall covers all sizes of two kinds of sandwich crackers -- Little Debbie peanut butter toasty crackers and Little Debbie peanut butter cheese crackers.

The company said no other Little Debbie products are involved in the recall. McKee said it acted because the crackers have the potential to be contaminated.

Federal health officials have urged people to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until more is known about a deadly outbreak of salmonella contamination.

Officials are focusing on peanut paste, as well as peanut butter, produced at Georgia facility owned by Peanut Corp. of America.

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WHAT ABOUT MY SKIPPY????? It's on sale. I was going to stock up.

Any p-nut butter on sale during a related salmonella report, I would pass, personally.

In fact, since we all know what a cracker jack job Bush's FDA has done for 8 years, I consider it a miracle they even bothered to report this last outbreak.

Skippy was ever involved in a recall. That's my brand and I'm sure I would have remembered.

In any event, we are not buying P-nut butter for a bit, just in case.

The factory that is the problem furnished peanut butter and peanut paste in large containers to companies that used it institutionally or used it in manufacturing other products, e.g. the filling in the Little Debbie crackers.

Skippy is made by Unilever USA, the US subsidiary of Unilever, which is headquartered in The Netherlands.

Most of the Little Debbie peanut butter crackers we had have already been eaten. Nobody got sick though

I usually buy almond butter.

I wonder if this brand is toxic.

About six days ago, when we were told that the danger only applied to one brand from one manufacturer of bulk peanut paste?

they are saying other brands are involved but they will not name them.
They do say it is the industrial grade bulk batches that go into cookies and such.

They also said that the jar brands for sandwich making is okay.Apparently the place only does the paste style pb.

....whose owner was appointed to the USDA Peanut Standards board a while back.

Big surprise.

It was 'drip, drip, drip" of news over weeks/months. I've emailed everyone on my email contact list with the articles...telling them to avoid ALL products with PB, reminding them of how slowly we were given info before about recalls.

they were pulling all the peanut butter snack products off the shelves. :(

I have a pack of LD nutty bars, damn you salmonella :cry:

Now, I can't enjoy them, grrr.

and in the post-donation eat-a-snack area they were handing out peanut butter crackers!! Aaackkk! I mentioned it to the people around me, one elderly woman had already eaten some, saying that she had forgotten about the news. Another younger woman said "I've been eating PB all week, I'm not worried about it all". They had 2 kinds of PB crackers and then some Oreo cookies to pick from.
Thinking about calling Carter Blood Care tomorrow here locally and reminding them about the recall..they really need to use some other snack til this PB recall is all over with.