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Article: Statement to the Media and Our Customers; Clarifying the King Nut Peanut Butter Recall.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 28, 2009
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On Saturday, January 10, we issued a recall of our peanut butter distributed to food service companies under the King Nut label (see also King Nut Companies).
We issued the recall after learning that salmonella had been discovered in an open container of peanut butter with our label. We also made it clear that we do not manufacture King Nut peanut butter nor do we supply any ingredients for the peanut butter. We are simply the distributors.
Since that time, we have been working closely with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control to help them trace the cause of this contamination. This takes time, but we are cooperating ...