PC Upgrades on Byte-Size Budgets -- Savings Experiment
Weird-Mart: Tales of the Bizarre from the Walmart Aisles
While preschool was difficult for my son, who just doesn't like playing according to a schedule, I can gratefully point to one rule I needed help reinforcing: washing his hands. Like all the rest of the kids, he was required to wash hands after going to the potty and before eating snacks.Clearly, the food workers of America did not learn this lesson.
Salmonella can infect a food in two ways: (1) if the raw meat or uncooked eggs from an infected chicken or other animal is ingested (either by eating raw food or by contaminating other foods with chicken juices, etc.) or (2) a human's feces come into contact with food. Because someone didn't wash his hands after using the potty. The CDC says the source of contamination is "still under investigation," but as this is the first-ever peanut butter contamination I'm just going to go out on a limb and say "human feces."
Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter products (starting with code 2111) have been recalled by ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG), thanks to a salmonella outbreak. I'm sure the parents who just sent their children to school with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches told them to wash their hands before lunch.
It's not like this is the first time this has happened, even in the past few months.
Remember Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) Taco Bell, and the great mystery contamination? Finally scientists settled on lettuce as the probable culprit. Lettuce! Everyone always tells you to eat your lettuce.
And your spinach. That was a bad scene; the nation's vitamin A and folate levels must have dropped by halves for the many weeks that spinach became unavailable throughout the U.S.
All because of a little rule you should have learned in preschool. Wash your hands, workers of America, wash your hands!
And your spinach. That was a bad scene; the nation's vitamin A and folate levels must have dropped by halves for the many weeks that spinach became unavailable throughout the U.S.
All because of a little rule you should have learned in preschool. Wash your hands, workers of America, wash your hands!
Goldman Earnings Sink After Buffett Dividend
Johnson & Johnson's Income Falls 23%
Burberry Shares Leap on Sales Update
Reader Comments (Page 4 of 4)
3-17-2007 @ 2:46PM
Bek said...
All Peter Pan Peanut butter lids have 2111 because they are all made at the same plant. The 2111 is only important if its the Wal-mart brand because not all of the peanut butter is made at the same plant. I ate two jars I'm fine. All 2111 jars being recalled is just a precaution. The majority of jars are probably alright.
3-24-2007 @ 3:44PM
Amanda Molé said...
This sounds like a BS story to me. Read very carefully, people. The author has no scientific basis for his/her claims, only opinions. And about the Taco Bell lettuce contamination... What do you think lettuce is fertilized with? Animal manure, perhaps? Please people, think before you post articles like this.
4-10-2007 @ 1:31PM
P. Waldrop said...
Just got my refund check. What a crock! For one, they only refund 2.65 for the smaller jar and 3.30 for the larger. I paid more than this at the store. The letter I recieved with the check said they included money for postage for the lids, however when I added it up they gave nothing, zero for the postage I paid to send them in. I am so disappointed, but not surprised!
5-09-2007 @ 8:45PM
Andre Desmarais said...
Peter Pan manufacturer have stop all correspondance regarding reimbursement of peanut butter purchases.
I live in Canada and was told by Con-agra to return the jar covers to their representative in Canada, which i have done.(bought in Florida at PUBLIX)
When i contacted hem originally they were more than co-operative but lately they play dead, They don't answer any e-mails etc...
Have they gone broke or have they eaten too much of their Peter Pan butter??
Andre Desmarais