Don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere, but here’s the link to the FDA website where they list all the products actually recalled (you can search or look in categories). I didn’t pay much attention to the recalls because I don’t eat peanut butter and my dog doesn’t eat a dog food containing any peanut product. I was very surprised to find her VitaBone treats on the list, however–the ones I have in my cupboard at this moment. They’re going in the trash this morning. The list of products is quite astonishing.
You can sign up for emailed updates to the list. They send one for each new product that is recalled.
I’m getting about 10 of them a day.
You would be amazed at the “all natural,” supposedly high-quality products that use the disgusting peanut-packing-leftovers and floor-scrapings paste produced by the company found to have salmonella all over it.
Cascadian Farms, for instance.
One imagines them to be carefully chopping up whole, deliciously fresh-roasted peanuts and incorporating them into their allegedly fine products, but noooooo . . . they’re using the same crap sold by the tanker truckful as pig feed.
This has certainly helped me adjust my views on consumption of prepared food products.
To be fair, some (if not most) of the recalls are voluntary and precautionary. For example, I got notification from Kashi about a recall of their cookies. The facility that bakes their cookies (no peanut product) also baked some products that may have had peanut products from King Nut. So, they issued a recall, though the chance of contamination of the Kashi products is miniscule.
But it is disturbing that this company continued to ship out product knowing it was contaminated. I heard they filed for bankruptcy the other day. Normally I hate hearing about companies going under, but in this case I think it’s probably fair.
