Peanut Butter Contaminated with Salmonella
What the heck you may be asking yourself! How can peanut butter be contaminated with salmonella. Well of course because it’s produced in a facility that also creates products with uncooked eggs and meat.
When illnesses caused by animal-based food products contaminate vegan diet sources of food, I get down right mad. I mean, come on. Even if we choose to eat a healthy, plant-based vegan diet, we can not escape the effects of the masses who eat animal-based foods.
Today the Minnesota Department of Health confirmed that a lot of King Nut creamy peanut butter tested positive for salmonella. To scare you even more, this has been going on since last fall and they are just now recalling 1,000 cases of the peanut butter. Over 400 people have fallen ill from this salmonella contamination in 42 states! To make it worse, 18% of the people complaining of sickness were hospitalized.
Is the CDC asleep? Did they take too much time off over the holidays? Why does it take so long for them to recognize this threat to our health?
Steven Reinberg from HealthDay reports, “The strain of salmonella has been identified as Salmonella Typhimurium, the most common of the more than 2,500 types of salmonella bacteria in the United States. It’s often found in uncooked eggs and meats, said officials with the CDC, who have been investigating the outbreak for several weeks.”
The final straw that broke the camel’s back or rather infectiously caused havoc in elderly intestines, was King Nut peanut butter found in a Minnesota nursing home. Now that is sad.
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Samlonella poisoning is very deadly. governments should impose tighter regulations with regards to food inspection.
in our place some vegetables have been contaminated with Salmonella. the local health office have been able to react quickly and have those contaminated vegetables taken off immediately from the shelves. at least 20 people have suffered from Salmonella here.
Salmonella is quite dangerous, specially when you ate foods infected with this bacteria. i had a friend who was hospitalized due to salmonella/food poisoning and he almost died from it.