Published Date: 2007-02-27 18:00:01
Subject: PRO/EDR> Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (08)
Archive Number: 20070227.0706

SALMONELLOSIS, SEROTYPE TENNESSEE, PEANUT BUTTER - USA (08)
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[1] Global distribution
[2] Peru
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[1] Global distribution
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Manufacturing.net [edited]
<http://manufacturing.net/article/CA6419774.html>

Tainted peanut butter that caused salmonella in 41 of the 50 USA states
also was sold in more than 60 other countries on 3 other continents and
islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the manufacturer says.
It was sold in Iraq, Iceland, India, American Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil,
Belize, Africa, Europe, and South America.
Stephanie Childs, a spokeswoman for the manufacturer, ConAgra Foods Inc,
said on Mon 26 Feb 2007, that word of the problem with the tainted peanut
butter has gone out everywhere peanut butter is sold under the Peter Pan
and Great Value label: If the top on the jar has a number starting with
"2111," do not eat it. "This is a full recall, including all the product,"
Childs said.
During the weekend, China announced a recall of the peanut butter. The
official Xinhua news agency said 3 batches (totaling 742 cases) of the 2
brands were imported between Sep 2006 and Jan 2007. The agency said at
least 156 cases already had been sold in Beijing, and even though the lids
had the suspect code, no one had reported being sickened by the peanut butter.
[byline: William C Mann]
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[2] Peru
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007
From: David Freedman <dfreedman@geomed.dom.uab.edu>

The media and ProMED-mail don't seem to have picked up the news yet that
the US has informed INFOSAN, the WHO Food Safety program that the
implicated lot 2111 has been distributed in at least 70 countries.
I can personally confirm that I purchased a jar from this lot here in Lima,
Peru on 26 Jan 2007. We are in the process of culturing it.
Today, 23 Feb 2007, I went back to the chain supermarket of the original
purchase and no Peter Pan was anywhere on the shelf. Thus it appears as if
the manufacturer may have notified its distributors of the problem in all
these countries and the product has been quietly withdrawn. However, there
has been no widespread notification of consumers in these countries by the
manufacturer and the distibutors. Consumers may have potentially
contaminated product in their homes, so perhaps ProMED-mail should help
spread the word and also alert readers to be on the lookout for related
salmonella cases.
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David O Freedman, MD
University of Alabama
[ProMED-mail thanks Dr Freedman for his contribution. - Mod. LL]

See Also

Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (07) 20070223.0665
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (06) 20070222.0660
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (05) 20070222.0652
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (04) 20070220.0635
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (03) 20070216.0578
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (multistate)
(02) 20070215.0568
Salmonellosis, serotype Tennessee, peanut butter - USA (multistate)
20070215.0563
2006
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Salmonellosis, serotype Norfolk, tomatoes - USA: corr 20061204.3421
Salmonellosis, serotype Norfolk, tomatoes - USA (Multistate) 20061202.3409
Salmonellosis, serotype Typhimurium - N. America (03) 20061109.3214
Salmonellosis, serotype Typhimurium - N. America (USA, Canada) 20061104.3168
Salmonellosis, serotype Typhimurium - Canada (NB, PEI) 20061103.3156
Salmonellosis, serotype Typhimurium - USA (multistate) (03) 20061103.3152
Salmonellosis, boiled peanuts - USA (SC) 20061102.3135
Salmonellosis, serotype Typhimurium - USA (multistate): RFI 20061030.3110
2002
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Salmonella, peanuts - Canada: recall 20020609.4450
2001
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Salmonella, peanuts - Australia & Canada ex China 20011012.2496
Salmonella, peanuts - Canada: recall 20010919.2275
Salmonella Stanley, peanuts - Australia: recall 20010911.2189
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