Please tell me people aren’t quite that dumb. I was looking at the FDA website to see just which products were recalled. I don’t really have any peanut butter products, just plain old peanut butter & wanted to make sure that wasn’t on the hit list.
On the page that describes the peanut butter salmonella issue, there is this statement:
Do not eat products that have been recalled and throw them away in a manner that prevents others from eating them.
I’m sorry but if you know your product was recalled and you eat it anyway, you deserve to get food poisoning. You are a complete idiot and, as punishment for being a complete idiot, you get to puke your guts out for a few days.
And how does one throw something out in a way that prevents others from eating it? I’m thinking if you’re throwing stuff out, you’re not setting it out on your front porch with matching dishes and silverware. I’m assuming it would go into a trash barrel. Are you supposed to lock your trash up? Perhaps you need to put warning labels on the trashcan saying, “Caution! Eating garbage may be hazardous to your health!”
If anyone is interested in seeing a list of recalls – while the FDA does have the info on their website, you have to click a hundred different links to see the complete list. This website has a list with everything on one page.
I was happy to see that Jiff wasn’t on the list. Now, after all this talk about peanut butter, I’m getting hungry. I think I’ll go make a peanut butter sandwich.
The news people reported that the plant knew about the salmonella risk yet still continued to produce/sell products. WHY would somebody do something like that. I get the almighty dollar thing, but do these people have no conscious at all?
Oops, forgot to say thanks for the link to the one-stop site for all the recalled products.
As their punishment, all people involved in the decision to produce & sell it should be forced to eat it.
There is now a blog from the CDC and FDA about the peanut product recall.