Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Recall: Chain Pulls Item After 29 Salmonella Illnesses In 18 States
WASHINGTON — The grocery store chain Trader Joe's is recalling peanut butter that has been linked to 29 salmonella illnesses in 18 states.
The Food and Drug Administration and the federal Centers for Disease Control said Saturday that the store's Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter, which is sold nationwide, is the likely source of the outbreak. The agencies are investigating whether any other items sold at the store could be contaminated.
More than three-fourths of those who became ill were children under the age of 18. No deaths have been reported.
The FDA issued a statement Saturday saying that the FDA, the CDC and the state of California briefed Trader Joe's on its investigation showing the link between the peanut butter and the illnesses on Sept. 20. The company then agreed to remove the product from store shelves.
The government did not release which states had reported illnesses, but several states have issued warnings to residents not to eat the peanut butter. According to the individual states' health departments, three cases were in Massachusetts, one was in Rhode Island and one was in North Carolina.
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| US farmers turn food waste into fertiliser |
Average American throws out about 180kg of food every year, even as global food prices soar.
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The world's biggest economies are set to gather for a G20 meeting next month, where they will decide whether action is needed to bring down soaring food prices.
But while some struggle to put food on the table, research shows that the average American throws out about 180kg of food every year.
About 40 per cent of all the food bought in the US ends up in the bin. Now, some inner city farmers are trying to help by recycling the waste into fertiliser to grow more produce.
| World Bank: Food costs at record levels again |
Prices now one per cent higher than previous peak in Feburary 2011 "threatening the health and well-being of millions".
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Global food prices spiked 10 per cent in July, the World Bank said on Thursday [EPA]
After decreasing somewhat in recent months, international food prices have again risen dramatically, according to figures published on Thursday by the World Bank. Statistics for July indicate a 10 per cent rise over just the previous month, and a six percent increase over already high prices from the same time frame a year ago.
“Food prices rose again sharply, threatening the health and well-being of millions of people,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement on Thursday from the bank’s Washington headquarters. “Africa and the Middle East are particularly vulnerable, but so are people in other countries where the prices of grains have gone up abruptly.”
That list includes countries around the world. According to the World Bank’s new Food Price Watch, between June and July prices for both maize and wheat increased by 25 per cent, while soybeans went up by 17 per cent. That leaves prices one per cent higher than the previous price peak in February 2011.
Kim noted that the World Bank has already brought its agriculture support to its highest level in the past two decades.
“We cannot allow these historic price hikes to turn into a lifetime of perils as families take their children out of school and eat less nutritious food to compensate for the high prices,” he said. “Countries must strengthen their targeted programmes to ease the pressure on the most vulnerable population.”
SLED report on convicted sheriff to stay secret
FILE - In this undated file photo shown in court in Aiken, S.C. on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, and made available by authorities, shows a gate built by an inmate for former Saluda County Sheriff Jason Booth. Details about what led prosecutors to accept a plea deal from Booth that only left him paying a $900 fine for using inmate labor to build a party shed on his land will be kept secret from the taxpayers who paid his salary for a decade. Photo: File / AP
SALUDA, S.C. (AP) — Details about what led prosecutors to accept a plea deal from a former sheriff that only left him paying a $900 fine for using inmate labor to build a party shed on his land will be kept secret from the taxpayers who paid his salary.
Jason Booth, once the top lawman in Saluda County also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor — not a felony. That means he could work in law enforcement again in South Carolina, though his attorney lamented in court that Booth's actions had ruined a career he had dreamed of for years.
But the only details the public can review about the case are the indictment, sentencing sheet and Solicitor Strom Thurmond Jr.'s less than six-minute review of the facts of the case at Booth's guilty plea and sentencing. That leaves plenty of questions unanswered, including whether Booth may have impeded the investigation or misused other inmates in the past.
The report compiled by the State Law Enforcement Division agent investigating the case, which would normally be released under the Freedom of Information Act, won't be made public. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said state law requires any testimony or evidence put before the State Grand Jury to remain secret.
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