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Article: Peanut products doing just fine after health scare
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON -- Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over
the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a
national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and
scaring consumers away from peanut products for months.
Peanut farmers who once feared $1 billion in losses are chalking
up their good fortune to a bad economy that has more people reaching
for peanut butter as a cheap lunch.
Agriculture Department numbers back up the theory. Peanuts
processed for snacks -- items such as sandwich crackers that were
heavily recalled during the outbreak -- were slightly down for the
accounting year ending July 31. But peanuts used for peanut butter
set an all-time record at ...