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Although hundreds of recall notices have been posted for thousands of peanut products since mid-January, due to possible Salmonella contamination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that a small number of cases of salmonellosis continues to occur.
FDA has advised consumers not to eat products that have been recalled and to throw them away in a manner that prevents others from eating them. However, some people interviewed recently by CDC may, apparently, still be eating recalled products and are becoming ill.
Foods that might have been recalled, depending on the source of the peanut ingredients, include peanuts (e.g., dry and oil roasted), peanut products (e.g., peanut paste, peanut butter, peanut granules, and peanut splits), as well as any foods that contain peanuts and/or peanut products as an ingredient. Examples of products that might contain such peanut ingredients are cookies, crackers, cereal, candy, and ice cream, among others. (Major national brands of jarred peanut butter found in grocery stores are not affected by the PCA recall.)
FDA offers a searchable database of recalled products and urges consumers to continue to check it often, as more recalls are added, by visiting http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm.
Please note, however, that some companies might not yet have notified FDA that they are recalling a product, and the product might not yet appear in the database. Before buying or consuming peanut-containing products that do not appear on the FDA database, please check the company's website or call the company to ensure that the product has not been recalled.
Also note that the potentially contaminated products probably will not have the name “Peanut Corporation of America” or “PCA” on the label. This is because other companies used PCA peanut ingredients in their products and put their own brand names, not PCA's name, on their labels.
Recalls are ongoing, as more potentially contaminated products are identified. The FDA database is updated frequently. Visitors to the database can sort their searches by product category; brand name; UPC code, if known; product description; or any combination of brand, UPC code, and description.
Those who do not have internet access can get this information by calling FDA's Information line at 1-888-SAFEFOOD during regular business hours or by calling CDC's information line at 1-800-CDC-INFO, which is staffed 24 hours a day.
FDA, CDC, and public health officials in various states continue to devote substantial resources to determining what additional products may be affected. Our goal is to share the most current information we have, and FDA and CDC will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available.