Consumers Union:

Get Contaminated Peanut Butter Out of Your Local Nursing Homes and Schools!

The numbers of the sick keep mounting—more than 600 people at last count. Nine people are dead. From eating peanut butter!

King Nut and Parnell's Pride brands, produced in a single Georgia factory, were found to be contaminated with a potentially deadly strain of salmonella and are now being recalled nationwide.

Not sold in supermarkets, these brands are widely used in nursing homes, schools, hospitals and other institutions that care for our most vulnerable family members. Salmonella is particularly dangerous for the elderly.

Despite national media attention, many institutions may not know if their peanut butter needs to go. Consumers Union is contacting nursing home trade associations to find out what they are doing to alert their members about the need to remove all supplies of this peanut butter from their kitchens.

You can help make sure your loved ones are safe! If you have a loved one in a home or assisted living facility that serves meals, or a child in school, please contact the school or facility to ask these questions:

Have they checked their kitchen for these two brands?
Have they discarded or returned any supplies they may have!
In addition to these two brands of peanut butter, cookies, crackers, ice cream and candy use ingredients supplied by this factory and have also been recalled. Have they checked the recall list and gotten rid of any other recalled items? For FDA's list of all recalled products click here.

Salmonella in Peanut butter

Help us by calling your loved one's nursing home, or your child's school today! And let us know what you found out. Here are some questions you can ask, and an easy form to report back their answers.

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Question - Required - Name of nursing home or school you contacted:

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Question - Required - Had they been contacted or had they heard about the recalled peanut butter? Yes
No

*3.

Question - Required - Had they discarded or would they check and discard any peanut butter if found? Yes
No

*4.

Question - Required - Had they already found and discarded the recalled peanut butter? Yes
No
Not Sure

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