| Peanut Butter and other Peanut Containing Products Recall List |
Peanut Butter and other Peanut Containing Products Recall List
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| Roasted Shelled Pistachio Recall |
Please review the following message from Alan Talarsky, Environmental
Scientist 1, Food and Drug Safety Program, DHSS regarding the
following Class 1 Recall issued by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. announced today that it is
voluntarily recalling from nationwide distribution specific lots of
bulk roasted shelled pistachios and 2,000 lbs., 1,700 lbs., 1,800 lbs.
and 1,000 lbs. tote bags of roasted inshell pistachios sold to
wholesale customers due to potential contamination with the Salmonella
organism.
This voluntary recall affects certain bulk roasted inshell and roasted
shelled pistachios shipped on or after September 1, 2008. The bulk
product was distributed throughout the United States. The Company is
voluntarily taking this precautionary measure after learning that a
small amount of roasted shelled pistachios processed by Setton
Pistachio and received by a commercial customer in late 2008 recently
tested positive for Salmonella. This voluntary recall is not in any
way related to the recent recalls associated with peanuts or peanut
butter.
The Company is asking those firms who received bulk product and have
further processed, repackaged, or distributed the affected products to
recall those products and contact FDA.
In addition, the company is voluntarily recalling the following retail
product: Setton Farms brand roasted salted shelled pistachios in 9 oz.
film bags, UPC Code: 034325020252 with a "Best Before" date between
01/06/10 and 01/19/10. This product was distributed in the following
states: SC, GA, FL, NC, VA, TN, KY. Consumers should not consume this
product and should return what they may have to the place of purchase
for a full refund. Setton has established a toll free number, (888)
228-3717, for consumers to call for further information.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young
children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune
systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience
fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal
pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in
the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe
illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms),
endocarditis and arthritis.
This is the first ever pistachio recall for Setton Pistachio, which
has been selling pistachios for more than 13 years.Setton Pistachio is
committed to quality products and consumer safety, and is taking
aggressive action to prevent the need for any future recalls of its
products.
No action is required of local health departments at this time for
this recall. If any requests for assistance are received from FDA, the
Food and Drug Safety Program will contact you. For additional
information regarding warnings and recalls, please click on the
weblink below.
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For all recalls - http://www.recalls.gov/recent.html
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| SPECIAL NOTICE FROM THE BOARD OF HEALTH 1/23/09 |
Note from Bergen County LINCS – Please note the FDA link below. That
link will direct you to a searchable database on the current list of
recalled products. This list is changing periodically.
Please review the following message from Alan Talarsky, Environmental
Scientist 1, Food and Drug Safety Program, DHSS regarding the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration's Class 1 recalls of more peanut
butter-containing foods due to their association with the Peanut
Corporation of America, which has implicated as the likely source of
the multi-state outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium.
The additional recalls include products from Best Brands Cookie Dough,
Lovin Oven Granola Bars, Landies Candies Peanut Butter Filled
Chocolates, NutriSystem Peanut Butter Granola Bar, Jimmy's Cookies,
Shurfine Ice Cream, GNC Peanut Butter Soft Chews, Chef Jay's Cookies
and Bars, Rain Creek Peanut Butter Products, South Bend Chocolate
Company Fudge and Chocolates, and Aspen Hills' Peanut Butter Pails.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and FDA recommend that
consumers refrain from consuming products containing peanut butter,
although individual containers of peanut butter for retail sale have
not been implicated in this outbreak.
Since there are so many products with varying lot codes being
recalled, and the likelihood of this list being updated frequently,
the Food and Drug Safety Program (FDSP) recommends visiting the FDA's
webpage of recalled peanut butter products at the following weblink:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
Some of these products have been identified as having been distributed
into New Jersey.
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