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Bacteria,
peanut butter,
Salmonella
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.
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