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Important Information about the Peanut Butter Outbreak From One of America's Leading Food Safety Law Firms

By PritzkerLaw

Federal and state agencies have confirmed that the sources of the outbreak of illnesses caused by Salmonella Typhimurium are peanut butter and peanut paste produced by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) at its Blakely, Georgia processing plant.

Peanut butter is sold by PCA in bulk containers ranging in size from five (5) to 1,700 pounds.  The peanut paste is sold in sizes ranging from 35-pound containers to product sold by the tanker container.  Neither of these products is sold directly to consumers. 

It has been determined that PCA distributed potentially contaminated product to more than 70 consignee firms, for use as an ingredient in hundreds of different products, such as cookies, crackers, cereal, candy and ice cream.  Companies all over the country that received product from PCA have issued voluntary recalls of their products.  The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created a searchable database for these products, which can be found at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm. Identification of products subject to recall is continuing and this list is updated frequently.

Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. is a leading food safety law firm with a national reputation for success in representing food poisoning victims. Our firm is already representing the family of the first wrongful death victim of the peanut butter outbreak as well as many other victims throughout the United States.

We are accepting peanut butter outbreak cases involving those people:

• Who have given stool samples that tested positive for salmonella and have eaten recalled product; or
• Who have received medical and/or hospital treatment and have been diagnosed with Salmonella symptoms (even if the stool sample was not obtained or was negative); or
• Who received medical treatment with Salmonella-like symptoms and  still have the contaminated product believed to have caused the illness.

We are not accepting the following cases:

• People who did not receive medical treatment and do not have the contaminated product believed to have caused the illness.

If you or a loved meet our selection criteria, please promptly contact us at fhp@pritzkerlaw.com ,by fax at 612-338-0104 or on the telephone at 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free).

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).