ConAgra Peanut Recall Extended a Year by FDA to 2004

According to Steven Bodzin of www.bloomberg.com reporting on the FDA, the Peanut Butter recall has once again been expanded.

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- ConAgra Foods Inc.'s recall of its Peter Pan butter and other peanut items will apply to products made by the third-largest U.S. food company since October 2004, a year earlier than the date in a prior recall notice.

``Consumers who purchased any of the products since October 2004 should discard them,'' the Food & Drug Administration said in an e-mailed statement. ``FDA's advice to consumers continues to be not to eat any Peter Pan peanut butter or any Great Value peanut butter beginning with the 2111 product code.''

``We recalled all peanut butter products out there, including those back to October 2004,'' she said in a telephone interview. ``This is to our perspective an ongoing effort to recall all the product from the marketplace.''

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention said in a statement March 7 that 425 people in 44 states were infected with the strain of salmonella also found in the peanut products and 71 people had been hospitalized. Two-thirds of the cases began after Dec. 1, 2006, it said.