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Article: Statement to the Media and Our Customers; Clarifying the King Nut Peanut Butter Recall
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 12, 2009
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To: HEALTH EDITORS
Contact: Martin Kanan, President and Chief Executive Officer,
King Nut Companies, +1-440-248-8484, ext. 244
SOLON, Ohio, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, January 10, we
issued a recall of our peanut butter distributed to food service
companies under the King Nut label.
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 ...