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Entry bubble What's up with Peanuts?

By: Colleen | January 28, 2009 | Category: Health

FDA Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak 2009. Flash Player 9 is required. According to the National Peanut Board (yes, apparently one exists), the average American consumes six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter each year.

If that's true, then I probably covered that just during the holiday season alone, since I am peanut butter's #1 fan. I speak highly of any product that can get me to eat celery.

So, it was much to my dismay to find out that since September 8th, at least 486 people have been sickened due to an outbreak of salmonella typhimurium in peanut products.

One may think that it's pretty easy to avoid peanuts until you can be sure it's safe to consume Mr. Planters again. Simply cut back on the PB&Js, right? But when you really think about it- most ice cream, protein bars, snack cakes, and crackers have some form of peanut in their ingredients.

Click here for the FDA's list of recalled products or look at the widget to the left.peanut

The outbreak can be traced back to products manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia. Some of the recalled products include: Famous Amos' peanut butter cookies, Wal-Mart's peanut butter fudge, Little Debbie sandwich crackers, Blanto's Peanut Butter Sticks, Meijer's peanut butter cup ice cream, and Austin's cheese and peanut butter sandwich crackers.

Man, I'm really glad those Girl Scout Tagalongs are a-ok!

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blue comment bubble Posted by #1 fan on January 28, 2009 at 08:44 AM EST

Colleen,
I am peanut buttter's #1 fan, we might have to duke it out over that title. Have you ever had peanut butter with Raisins and Craisins

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blue comment bubble Posted by Colleen on January 28, 2009 at 01:48 PM EST

Hmmm, I've never thought about trying peanut butter with crasins. Sounds wonderful. Thanks!

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blue comment bubble Posted by http://www.health-info.info on January 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM EST

My son is allergic to peanuts so we try not to have it at the house even though our daughter likes it and is not allergic to it. Also we do buy organic peanut butter.

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blue comment bubble Posted by Jon on January 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM EST

As a parent of a young child with a severe peanut allergy, we have been keeping a completely peanut free house for the past 3 years. This is not an easy thing to do as peanuts and peanut products show up in hundreds of unusual places (peanut flour used in pizza dough for example), and any one mistake could put my daughter back in the hospital. For everyone else who is now needing to avoid peanut products, I recommend checking out the non-profit Food Allergy and Anaphalixis Network website that has lots of good information on how to avoid products with peanuts or other allergens. http://www.foodallergy.org/

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blue comment bubble Posted by Colleen on January 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM EST

Thanks for the tip, Jon. It is amazing the number of kids today who are allergic to peanuts. My roomate, who is a teacher, was telling me that they have "peanut free" tables in their cafeteria. This kind of blew my mind, but I suppose it makes sense.

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blue comment bubble Posted by saman shahin on January 29, 2009 at 02:16 PM EST

I hate dry fruits and peanuts. in fact I will break out if I use these products.
I love vegetable and some times Pizza by the way I love sites like the FDA's list of recalled products site (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm) that completely give information to users and consumers.
FOR HEALTHY AND LOVELY LIFE, FOR YOU AND ME, ...

so, Thanks to All Admins of these sites.

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blue comment bubble Posted by SophiaZoe on January 31, 2009 at 10:03 AM EST

Thanks for making the widget so easily sharable. I've put it on the top of my site's sidebar while the recall is current.

Great Web 2.0 utilization, my sincere thanks and praise.

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blue comment bubble Posted by abcdef on February 05, 2009 at 03:55 PM EST

I love peanuts but they are becoming an endangered food because of the epidemic of peanut allergies mostly among young children. What is causing the allergies? It is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Children received:
1960 – 1-2 vaccines
1980 - 8-9 vaccines
1990 - 10 vaccines
2000 - 33 vaccinations
2007 - 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age 6

Vaccines contain an adjuvant that increases the body's immune response to the protein in the vaccine. Something that the public and most physicians don't realize is that the adjuvant can contain a trace of food protein. This is a protected trade secret and does not have to appear on the package insert. Soy, sesame, peanut, wheat germ, corn, shellfish, and fish oils are listed as ingredients in the patents. It has been known since 1839 that injections can cause food allergies. The pharmaceutical industry is exempt from labeling medicines that may contain trace amounts of peanuts or nuts. Shouldn't your doctor know if he is injecting a peanut-allergic patient with peanut oil?

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