I decided to do another peanut butter recall diary because the list of recalled products has grown SIGNIFICANTLY. I promise to continue covering this on my blog as long as the recall keeps growing, so check there often if you're concerned or subscribe to our RSS feed.
I'd also like to bring up the larger context of the problem we're seeing here. One company supplies peanut butter to many, many other companies - which in turn sell products under various brand names. The recall's been growing daily - obviously this convoluted, highly centralized supply chain isn't even straightforward for the companies involved, since they certainly didn't all get on board with their recalls on day one.
The fact of the matter is that this was predicted when a similar food safety crisis occurred with pet food in 2007. In fact, Marion Nestle subtitled her book on the pet food crisis "The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine." I emailed her the other day to say:
I doubt it feels good right now that you can officially tell the country "I told you so."
More below - including the list of recalled products.
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