Peanut Butter Products Recall List Getting Longer

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[Update: Jan 23 - 8 more recall notices ]
[Update: Jan 21 - 7 more recall notices ]
[Update: Jan 20 - 4 more recalls, including pet food!]

As of late last night early late Wednesday morning night Friday morning, there were 16 20 27 35 recalls announced on the FDA website, ranging from bulk peanut butter packages, to crackers, cookies,  and ice cream. Now, even our dogs are in danger. The FDA has asked 30 companies to consider holding or recalling their products. So there may be a few more announcements today and later this week.

A full list of recalls to date is at the bottom of this post.

What you need to know:

Recalls are voluntary, which means the FDA cannot mandate a company to pull products off the shelves unless salmonella has actually been found in a sampling. (For example, Salmonella has been found in Kellogg’s Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter.)

For many companies, the recall process is expensive and may entail logistic complications as well. Could financial considerations override the risk of a consumer getting sick? We’d like to think not, but perhaps it would be wiser if the FDA had more authority in such cases to order the recall / hold of all suspected products, pending further investigation.

What to do at the supermarket:

You’ve probably figured this one out on your own. (97.5% ore more of the products in a typical supermarket are peanut butter free.)

Current Recall List:

• Chef Jay’s – Tri-O-Plex Products
• Rain Creek Baking Corp – Peanut Butter Turtles, Peanut Butter Baskets, Peanut Butter Princesses
• South Bend Chocolate Company – Extends Nationwide Recall of Candy
• Nash Finch – Bakery Products With Peanut Butter
• Aspen Hills, Inc. – Cookie Dough Products
• Best Brands Corp. – Peanut Butter Frozen Cookie Dough
• Lovin Oven, LLC – Health Valley Organic Peanut Crunch Chewy Granola Bars
• Landies Candies – Peanut Butter Filled Chocolates
• Weis Markets – Weis Quality (WQ) Cheese Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers , WQ Toasted Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers
• Blanton’s Candies – Peanut Butter Sticks
• Dinners Ready Meridian – Asian Marinated Flank Steak, Indonesian Chicken – Chicken Satay Prepared Meals
• Boca Grande Foods – POCO PAC, GRANDE GOURMET Peanut Butter Products
• Premier Nutrition – TWISTED and TITAN Branded Bars Containing Peanut Butter
• NutriSystem – Peanut Butter Granola Bar
• Ready Pac Foods – Trader Joe’s, Eating Right branded products
  
• PetSmart – Grreat Choice® Dog Biscuits
• Nature’s Path – Peanut Butter Optimum Energy Bars
• Country Maid – Classic Breaks® Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
• Evening Rise Bread Co. -  Peanut Butter Cookies and Bars
• Clif Bar -  CLIF® and LUNA® Branded Bars
• Kroger – Select Ice Cream Products
• Abbott Nutrition -  ZonePerfect® Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, ZonePerfect® Peanut Toffee Bars, NutriPals™ Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars
• Meijer – Peanut Butter Crackers, Ice Cream
• Peanut Corporation of America Expands Nationwide Recall of Peanut Butter
• Wal-Mart -  Bakery Brand Peanut Butter Cookies
• Lofthouse – Peanut Butter Cookies, Chuck’s Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies, Pastries Plus Gourmet Cookies
• Food Lion – Bake Shop Peanut Butter Cookies
• South Bend Chocolate Company – Candies Containing Peanut Butter
• McKee Foods – Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Toasty, Peanut Butter Cheese Sandwich Crackers
• Perry’s Ice Cream – Select Peanut Butter Ice Cream Products
• Hy-Vee Inc. – Bakery Products With Peanut Butter
• Peanut Corporation of America Expands Nationwide Recall of Peanut Butter
• Kellogg Company – Austin® and Keebler® Branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, Snack-Size Packs of Famous Amos® And Keebler® Soft Batch Peanut Butter Cookies
• Peanut Corporation of America – Peanut Butter (bulk packages)
• King Nut – Peanut Butter (bulk packages)

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