A price tag of nearly $1 billion has recently been associated with the peanut butter recall, with the cost affecting both manufacturers and health officials as well as consumers, according to reports deriving from the Peanut Butter Corp of America Congressional hearings and Associated Press reports.
According to local news reports, Michigan has spent nearly $400,000 with monitoring the peanut butter and products entering state lines. The Public News Service also released a list of additional peanut butter recall products.
Peanut Butter Recall
The recall began January 13 and has sickened more than 700 individuals across 46 states as well as resulted in the death of approximately nine Americans. On January 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initiated an investigation at the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant, which is located in Blakely, Georgia. On January 27, by the time more than 400 individuals were sickened, the FDA concluded that improper methods had been used when monitoring and testing the peanut butter for salmonella.
Following the initial peanut butter recall on January 13, the PCA made another voluntary recall on January 28 for products made in the previous two years, all of which could have been tainted with salmonella, according to FDA public health advisories. The FDA made an additional amendment to it's initial investigation stating that the PCA did not provide information that was consistent with what the FDA had learned during their investigation. The Congressional hearings were to provide an internal investigation into why hundreds of United States citizens were sickened by the peanut butter recall and salmonella infections. Dealing With Peanut Butter Risks While hundreds of Americans were reportedly affected by the peanut butter recall of 2009, health officials anticipate that number to be much higher as many individuals likely were sickened by tainted peanut butter without knowledge of their actually condition.
Those who feel they may have been sickened by the salmonella outbreak should contact a medical professional to be tested for their symptoms in order to confirm or dissolve any theories of a salmonella diagnosis. It is also imperative that those who were sickened or may have been at risk for developing salmonella poisoning because of consumption of recalled peanut butter speak to a food safety attorney who can provide a consultation to salmonella poisoned victims. Individuals need to acquire compensation for the pain and suffering involved in a peanut butter recall.
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