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...recent salmonella outbreak at the Peanut Corporation of America has led to the recall of more than 1,800 peanut-containing products, from off-brand dog biscuits to Trader Joe's vegan pad Thai, and sent sales of peanut butter plunging 25%, despite assurances that jars on supermarket shelves are not tainted. But the panic illustrates just how thoroughly the legume (Arachis hypogaea is, technically, not a nut), fashioned into a paste, has permeated the American diet. Spread on crackers, slathered on celery, melted with chocolate: peanut butter goes with almost anything...
Students digging into the shrimp and peanut pad thai served by Harvard University Dining Services on Monday night may have noticed the lack of a central ingredient—diced peanuts. HUDS decided to eliminate peanut-based menu items due to the current peanut-borne salmonella outbreak that may have claimed nine lives and caused over 600 illnesses...
...safety of the various peanut butters HUDS serves—Teddie Peanut Butter, the bulk residential dining peanut butter; Once Again Nut Butter, the organic peanut butter; and Smucker’s Peanut Butter personal packs, offered in retail locations and catering, was confirmed at the onset of the outbreak...
Bleary-eyed students reaching for a midnight snack in Lamont Library may have more pressing concerns than assignments and deadlines: as late as last Thursday, the library’s café still stocked nutrition bars that had been recalled during a nation-wide salmonella outbreak. Clif Bar & Company announced a voluntary recall of various CLIF and LUNA bars on Jan. 30, citing “concerns that the recalled bars contain peanut products that were manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which is the focus of an ongoing Salmonella investigation.” Clif?...
...participating provinces, including Baghdad. They failed to win, however, in the largely Shi'ite province of Karbala, in the mixed provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, and in largely Sunni Anbar, where unresolved allegations of election fraud among rival Sunni contenders have left the province fearing an outbreak of violence...