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Article: Health Buzz: Food Banks Affected by Salmonella Outbreak and Other Health News.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- February 17, 2009
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Byline: January W. Payne
How the Salmonella Outbreak Affects Food Banks
Food banks across the country are throwing out peanut products (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izU3Tl3YYqaBqWYkPPfvKU1qMWAQD96D7R080) that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it's a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic ...