Thought the peanut scare was over? 15 new items added to the list just last week
More than two months after America was first being deluged with news that salmonella-tainted peanut products were scattered throughout the nation's food supply, the list of potentially dangerous products is still growing.
At least 15 more products were added to the list in the past week and at least 70 so far in March, bringing the total to about 3,500. After Peanut Corp. of America filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 (liquidation of assets), the company ceased communicating with its customers -- forcing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and state authorities to try to figure out where PCA-produced products had gone. And it's not going smoothly.
So far, authorities have connected the products to nine deaths and nearly 700 people who fell ill. So the delay in finding products is dangerous at best and deadly at worst. You can search the list of recalled products here. If you have any of the products that have been recalled, you are urged to throw them away immediately.
