I just received the following email from Food Lion:

Dear Valued Customer,

As an MVP card holder and as one of our customers who has indicated a desire for e-mail messages from us, we are sending you this alert regarding a powdered milk recall by one of our suppliers.  The manufacturer has recalled this product due to possible salmonella contamination:

The following Food Lion product is being recalled:

PRODUCT                                       UPC#               Size

Food Lion Instant Nonfat Dry Milk      35826-03577      9.6 oz.

We are asking customers to return this item to the store for a full refund.

We would like to assure you that Food Lion regards food safety as a top priority. Information regarding recalls can be found at www.FoodLion.com/Recalls.

Thank you for being a valued customer.

If you have this in your cabinet please take the necessary measures to prevent from becoming ill.

I just received an email from Food Lion concerning some of the Food Lion and Bloom label trail mixes being recalled. Here is what my email states:

Dear Valued Customer,

As an MVP card holder and as one of our customers who has indicated a desire for e-mail messages from us, we are sending you this alert regarding additional peanut products recalled today by National Raisin, one of our suppliers. The recall is due to an inspection by the Texas Department of Health at the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Plainview, Texas.

The following Food Lion and Bloom products are being recalled:

PRODUCT                                                   UPC/GTIN#                            Size

Food Lion Raisin and Nut Trail Mix                   3582606484                            6 oz. 
Food Lion Fruit and Nut Trail Mix                     3582606485                            6 oz.
Food Lion Winter Blend Trail Mix                      3582606486                            6 oz.
Food Lion Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix                     3582606487                            6 oz.
Bloom Raisin and Nut Trail Mix                        72543992166                          6 oz.
Bloom Fruit and Nut Trail Mix                         72543992167                          6 oz.
Bloom Winter Blend Trail Mix                          72543992168                          6 oz.
Bloom Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix                         72543992169                          6 oz.

We are asking consumers to return these items to the store for a full refund. 

At this time, a number of products containing peanut butter, peanut paste or peanuts have been recalled; however, peanut butter sold in jars at our stores is not affected.

We would like to assure you that Food Lion LLC, including all Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar Food, Reid’s and Harveys stores, regards food safety and the safety of our customers as a top priority and is our utmost concern.  Information regarding ongoing recalls can be found at http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.html . We are also updating our Web site, http://www.foodlion.com/recalls, with all the products we have pulled.

Thank you for being a valued customer.

Please make sure you check your cabinets and contact the appropriate store if you find you are in posession of any of these products.

The above kids sunglasses were sold at discount dollar stores, party stores, and hardware stores. They were sold from May 2007 through August 2008. The paint is feared to contain excessive amounts of lead. Go HERE to read up on this recall and find out what you should do if you are one of the 5,300 customers that purchased these.

My family LOVES peanut butter. In light of the recent recalls of peanut butter I decided to do a little pantry reasearch. I wanted to know what my family can and can not eat. *Please note this is information that was located on January 20 so if there are companies listed in the NOT impacted section that releases new recalls after January 20 please be aware of it. You may want to research it just to be sure! Also note that you need to be careful of vending machine snacks as well. The owners may not realize/care that a recalled product is in their machine and you may trust in the fact that they removed the prodcuts and YOU may end up very sick or dead because of this oversight/lack of caring. So far, as of January 20, 2009, this is what I have found:

Companies NOT impacted:

~ J.M. Smucker Company products ARE safe for consumption. This company includes these brands – Smuckers, JIF, Smucker’s Uncrustables, Adams, and Laura Scudder. J.M. Smuckers PB is Safe!

~ Hershey Co – NOT affected LINK and/or LINK

~ ConAgra – NOT affected LINK and/or LINK

~ Lance Products NOT affected – Lance Press Release

~ Girl Scout Cookies NOT affected – LINK

~ Sara Lee products are safe and are NOT affected – Sara Lee

~ Kraft Products are safe and are NOT affected – Kraft Products

~ Mars Snackfoods are NOT affected and are safe for consumption – Mars Snackfoods

~ Harris Teeter – While Harris Teeter was affected in that their stores carried some of the products that were made with the tainted peanut butter they have provided a list of products they carry that have not been affected by the recall. Here is that list taken from their site:

“Products that are sold by Harris Teeter that are NOT impacted by this recall:
1. Harris Teeter’s private label peanut butter crackers
2. Hunter dairy products
3. Jars of peanut butter
4. Lance products
5. Little Debbie products
6. Mars Candy (M&M, Snickers, Twix, Kudos and Ethel M)
7. Smart Balance
8. Unilever (Slimfast shakes, Slimfast bars, Breyers, Ben & Jerry’s, Skippy, Klondike and Good Humor)
9. Kraft (Nabisco and Planter’s peanuts)
10. Tastee cakes (Tastee baking)
11. Moon Pie
12. Smucker’s (Jif, Smucker’s Uncrustables, Adam’s and Laura Scudder’s)
13. Atkins
14. Keebler (Chips Deluxe Chocolate Peanut Butter cookies, Chips Deluxe Peanut Butter Cups cookies, Fudge Shoppe Fudge Sticks Peanut Butter cookies, Fudge Shoppe Peanut Butter Filled cookies, Grahams Sandwich Bites Peanut Butter and Soft Batch Peanut Butter cookies- 16.9 oz)
15. Kellogg’s (Crunchy NutTM Sweet & Salty Chocolatey Peanut granola bars, Crunchy Nut Sweet & Salty Granola Bars Peanut Butter, Nutri-Grain Fruit & Nut Bars Cranberry, Raisin & Peanut, Rice Krispies Treats Chocolatey Peanut Butter bars,  Special K Protein Meal Bar Chocolate Peanut Butter, Special K Protein Snack Bar Chocolate Peanut, Pops Chocolate Peanut Butter Cereal)
16. Murray (Sugar Wafers Peanut Butter and Sugar Free Peanut Butter cookies)
17. Famous Amos Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
18. Kashi (GOLEAN Original Peanut Butter & Chocolate, GOLEAN Caramel Peanut Roll, GOLEAN Chocolate Peanut Roll, GOLEAN Fudge Sundae Roll, GOLEAN Oatmeal Walnut Roll, GOLEAN Chocolate Turtle Roll, GOLEAN Crunchy, Chocolate Peanut Protein & Fiber Bar, TLC Happy Trail Mix Chewy Cookies, Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chewy Cookies, TLC Oatmeal Raisin Flax Chewy Cookies, TLC Chewy Granola Bars Peanut Peanut Butter, TLC Chewy Granola Bars Honey Almond Flax, TLC Chewy Granola Bars Trail Mix, TLC Fruit & Grain Bars Dark Chocolate Coconut, TLC Fruit & Grain Bars Pumpkin Pie and TLC Fruit & Grain Bars Raspberry Chocolate)
19. Blue Dog Bakery (Premium All Natural Low Fat Dog Treats, Peanut Butter Softies, Peanut Butter Doggie Paws and Peanut Butter & Molasses)
20. Russell Stover
21. Whitman’s
22. Pangburn’s
23. Ghirardelli”

~ Smart Balance is NOT affected by the investigation – SMART BALANCE

~ Tastykake products are NOT affected – TASTYKAKE

~ Unilever products are NOT affected – The Unilever family of product includes the following brands: Skippy peanut butter, Slim-Fast shakes and bars, Good Humor-Breyers, Klondike and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream none of which are affected by the recall. UNILEVER

Companies that ARE Impacted:

~ CLIF and LUNA branded bars recalled – CLIF Bars (link has products and upc number of products being recalled)

~  Kroger recalls certain Ice Cream products – Kroger Recalls

~ Abbott Nutrition announces product recalls – Abbott Nutrition 

Products impacted are:    

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  • ZonePerfect Chocolate Peanut Butter bars, all sizes and quantities    
  • ZonePerfect Peanut Toffee bars, all sizes and quantities 
  • NutriPals Peanut Butter Chocolate nutrition bars, all sizes and quantities    

~ Meijer recalls some of their brand name peanut butter crackers and ice cream products – Meijer Recall

~ Complete list of Peanut Corporation of America recalls (This is bulk items list. If you work for a company that may distribute/use the 5lb to 1,700lb or tanker size products then you will want to see this list for the lot numbers affected.) – PCOA Recall

~ Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products recalls the following products:

•  Wal-Mart Bakery Brand Peanut Butter Cookies – A complete list of the items recalled can be found here – Wal-Mart Cookie Recall
• Lofthouse Peanut Butter Cookies, Chuck’s Peanut Butter Cookies, Pastries Plus Gourmet Cookies – Recalled items list can be found here – Lofthouse, Chuck’s and Pastries Plus Gourmet Cookies
• Food Lion Bake Shop Peanut Butter Cookies – Food Lion Recall

~ South Bend Chocolate Company recalls different candys containing peanut butter – South Bend Chocolate Company Recall

~ McKee Foods Corp. recalls Little Debbie® Peanut Butter Toasty and Peanut Butter Cheese Sandwich Crackers – Little Debbie Recall

~ Perry’s Ice Cream Company recalls select peanut butter ice cream products – Perry’s Ice Cream Recall

~ Hy-Vee Inc. recalls bakery products in seven states containing peanut butter. Hy-Vee recall

~ Kellogg Company recalls various products containg peanut butter. – The products included in recall are Austin® and Keebler® Branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers and Select Snack-Size Packs of Famous Amos® And Keebler® Soft Batch Peanut Butter Cookies. To view the complets list of recall products go to Kellogg Company Recall.

~ King Nut Issues Peanut Butter Recall

~ General Mills recalls LARABAR and JamFrakas Peanut Butter Snack Bars. General Mills Recall

~ H.E. Butt (H.E.B) Grocery Co. is recalling all of its H-E-Buddy snack packs that contain peanut butter. H.E.B. Recall

Please feel free to leave me a comment if you know of anymore recalls that are not listed here. I will be sure to update the list and give you credit for the information.

The following was taken from TheWashingtonPost.com

An Ohio peanut butter distributor issued a voluntary recall Saturday for two brands of peanut butter after health officials in Minnesota on Friday said they had found salmonella bacteria in a tub of peanut butter that is distributed to schools and hospitals.

The recall, and the Minnesota report, could be the breakthrough in the search for the source of a salmonella outbreak that has struck in 42 states so far.

To finish reading this article go HERE.

The following was taken from Yahoo News:

King Nut Companies said in a statement that it asked customers to stop distributing all peanut butter under its King Nut and Parnell’s Pride brands with a lot code that begins with the numeral “8.”

The peanut butter was distributed only through food service providers in Ohio, Michigan, North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida. It was not sold directly to consumers.

To read this complete article go HERE.