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J.M. Smucker announced Saturday a recalll of Jif peanut butter across the country because of a potential salmonella contamination.
The company said that the peanut butter was sold nationwide and the recall includes more than 45 kinds of products. Products with the lot codes, next to the “best if used by” date, between 1274425 to 2140425 are the products potentially contaminated, the company said in aproducts include both creamy and crunchy peanut butters, peanut butter to-go packs, and the natural squeeze pouch.
The Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other state and local health agencies, are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg,So far, 14 people in 12 states have reported illnesses connected to the outbreak, the CDC said. Two were hospitalized. All five people who contacted the CDC had reported eating peanut butter, with four of them specifically eating Jif peanut butter before getting ill, the CDC said.
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected withoften experience fever, diarrhea , nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection withcan result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections , endocarditis and arthritis.
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