Cut Out The Peanut Butter Snacks
CNN reports: Kellogg warns not to eat its peanut butter crackers
The products affected are Austin- and Keebler-branded:
— Toasted peanut butter sandwich crackers.
— Peanut butter and jelly sandwich crackers.
— Cheese and peanut butter sandwich crackers.
— Peanut butter-chocolate sandwich crackers.The Michigan-based maker of cereals and snacks posted the recommendation in a statement on its Web site.
Peanut butter produced by Peanut Corporation of America, one of several peanut butter suppliers to the company, has been linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning that has affected at least 434 people in 43 states, federal health officials said Wednesday.
The King Nut peanut butter recall was for institutions, as the products are not sold through retail outlets. The bulk product is, however, sold to manufacturers, such as Kellogg, so it might be a good idea not to eat anything that features peanut butter unless it comes out of a jar at home.
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The problem is the peanut butter that they are using comes from China, Kellogs, Nabisco, Nestles and all the rest are using tainted Chinese food products without proper labeling, they are able to fool everyone because the food is packaged here.
i’ve always thought the keebler elves were evil.
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We need to have country of origin packaging since the FDA obviously doesn’t have the resources to do the job. We really are on our own in the current “anything goes” business environment.
The chocolate probably comes from Mexico, since Hersey’s has shut down all of it’s American production and moved it South.
We need to require some truth in labeling so people know what they are buying.
They are part of the junk food industry, how could they not be evil, Hipparchia?
We used to have proper labels with country of origin for the ingredients, but under industry lobbying (and I’m sure some nice donations to his private retirement fund) Howard *bowed to pressure* and watered it down so that they only have to say “Made from imported ingredients” or “Made from local and imported ingredients” etc.
Consumer rights. There’s an oxymoron for you!
Oh! I forgot… They did of course include some loopholes. 🙂 Eg. They can include the packaging material. So, if the packaging is made locally (even if it’s *ingredients* are sources internationally, that counts as ‘local ingredients’. So, the actual *food* component of whatever is packaged can be sourced completely internationally. Nice, huh? People are so stupid. *sigh*
In my lifetime there was once a certain cachet about being imported, but that is long since gone, in various recalls and problems. Monsanto is responsible for giving US food exports a bad name with its GM products, and the FDA resistance to testing has caused major problems for meat producers.
People want to know what they are eating and where it came from. Providing that information should be a normal part of doing business, not “a major burden”. It makes people suspicious when an extra line of text is considered a big deal by a corporation.
Country of Origin labeling….NOW.
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Back in ancient times, retailers and manufacturers made a point of labeling products “Made in the USA”, and the labels were prominent. These days you have to search to find a CoO label, even when it’s required.
It shouldn’t be a problem, unless manufacturers are worried that consumers won’t like the truth.