Federal officials are forcing the consumers to stop eating all kinds of foods that contain traces of peanut butter until specific assurances have been made that the foods are not made by the Peanut Corp. of America. A few of these foods were found to containsalmonella in it.

The food and drug officials of America asserted on Saturday that the peanut paste or the peanut butter produced from the grounded roasted peanuts by the Peanut Corp’s Georgia plant was found to have traces of the bacteria.

It has supposedly sickened more than 470 people in about 43 states across America. However, a direct link to this illness has not been successfully found. The corporation announced that it doesn’t directly supply its produce from the Georgia plant to the supermarkets; hence not all the peanut butters are infected.

The peanut butter manufactured from the plants is sold in bulk within containers from 5 to 1500 pounds.

The very famous peanut paste is used for making cakes, cookies, candies and some kinds of ice cream. The FDA has confirmed that they found traces of salmonella Typhimarium responsible for the outbreak in government institutions such as nursing homes, schools as well as prisons.

The infected peanut butter was made after August 8th 2008 and the paste was made around September 26th 2008. Kellogs has called off some of its products including the peanut butter cookies since they could be made from the same butter provided by the Corp.