Oh Peanut Butter Product Recall, how do I consider thee similar to the 2007 Pet Food Recall? Let me count the ways:
1. We now know that such diverse brands as Little Debbie, Keebler, Nutri System and Kashi all use the same ingredients (at least as far as peanut butter goes, maybe more). But wait a minute here – I thought if I paid more, I was getting a higher quality product? *sounds buzzer* Sorry, thanks for playing.
2. You can check a product’s website one day and it has an announcement reassuring consumers that their foods are safe. But the next day: recall! Are we supposed to believe the company didn’t know they were using the contaminated peanut butter from the mildew plant yesterday? Come on!
3. If you ask a company why only certain lots are being recalled (when presumably the other lots contain the same ingredients, at least they say so on the label) and if they’ve switched peanut butter vendors, they can’t give out specifics – it’s “proprietary info”.
4. Non-PB products that were processed on the same equipment as the recalled products now have to be recalled due to cross-contamination because apparently they don’t clean the lines between runs!
5. The Salmonella/Mildew peanut processing plant “lab shopped” until it got the “right” results on its food safety tests. Those records only have to be made available to the FDA after people start dying from their greedy scheme.
Gee, PB recall and 2007 Pet Food Recall – you guys are like twins. Let’s hope there isn’t a triplet happening out there right now which we will only be made aware of after people start dying.
Related:
- Science Friday discussed the sad state of affairs at the FDA as part of the show today.
- Owner who fed his dog PB crackers and then the dog died
- FDA does basically nada about Salmonella tainted pet food