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Article: Peanut butter recall bites smaller businesses
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- February 28, 2009
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To Betsy Sanders, the nationwide salmonella outbreak tied to peanut butter has been a hurricane. Her tiny cookie dough business is the debris.
Reimbursing customers for recalled products has already cost her Dough-To-Go Inc. business as much as $7,000, she says _ a big chunk for a company that turned little profit last year. She also has 2,500 pounds of peanut butter that she can't use because it came from Peanut Corp. of America _ the company that was the source of the outbreak and that has since filed for bankruptcy protection.
"We're the victim, too," said Sanders, who started the business off an idea her son had at age 12. "We've done nothing wrong and ...