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Iowa Food Safety: 3rd Minnesotan dies, peanut butter food poison

The Salmonella food poisoning crisis in peanut butter may have caused a third nursing home resident death in the Brainerd area. The products have been linked to some degree from a Peanut Corp. of America plant in Georgia, as the suspected source of contamination.  As some of you know I’ve been on  a mountain in South America and have missed a lot of this news; Barbara seems to know more about it than I do; but with her father in a nursing home I’d take no chances with eating anything that has peanut butter as an ingredient.

And that is my point, food poisoning knows no distinctions; it isn’t like it announces which sources of food stuffs it is included. My concerns, and for many others with elderly parents, why take a chance. My position is pretty simple; I’d protect the elderly before worrying about some company’s financial statement; and, until the source of bacteria is clearly identified and under control, warn your elderly parents and grandparents to stay away from peanut butter products.

Here is what the FDA has on its site about the peanut butter salmonella outbreak.

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