Three More Food Companies Issue Peanut Butter Recalls

WASHINGTONThree more U.S. food companies have issued voluntary recalls for products containing peanut butter paste sourced from Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

As reported by FLEXNEWS, General Mills, Inc., recalled Larabar Peanut Butter Cookie flavor snack bars and JamFrakas Peanut Butter Blisscrisp flavor snack bars; Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products recalled all Wal-Mart Bakery brands of peanut butter cookies sold in the in-store bakery sections of Wal-Mart Stores, as well as its Lofthouse brand and Food Lion brand peanut butter cookies; and Meijer recalled two types of its Meijer Brand sandwich crackers and two types of Meijer Brand ice cream sold in its stores and gas stations in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are continuing their investigation into the tainted food product and advising consumers to avoid eating other peanut butter-containing products until information becomes available about whether that product may be affected.