Peanut butter jam snares local mother

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Salmonella Attorney

At least one Cecil County family isn’t eating much peanut butter these days.

Not that Kelly Jackson ate that much peanut butter to begin with.

“And it was sugar-free, low-carb peanut butter. No one else in the family was eating (from that jar) but me,” said the 34-year-old Rising Sun woman. “I ate it sporadically.”

The jar is now sitting on a high shelf away from Jackson’s two children because she suspects it is what made her very sick.

Jackson has been hospitalized three times since May 2006. Each time she suffered with vomiting, diarrhea and severe stomach pains.

With each admission she was treated with antibiotics and intravenous fluids. The only thing doctors could find was the presence of some kind of infection.

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Testing finds salmonella in peanut butter jars that came from Georgia ConAgra plant

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Salmonella Attorney
OMAHA, Neb. — A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.

No deaths have been confirmed, although a Pennsylvania family filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming a relative died from eating tainted peanut butter.

Opened jars from people who were sickened in New York, Oklahoma and Iowa tested positive for salmonella, said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the CDC in Atlanta.

"Now the question becomes, how did the salmonella get in the jar," Daigle said.

ConAgra Foods Inc. last week recalled all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter made at its Sylvester, Ga., plant after federal health officials linked the product to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 329 people from 41 states since August.

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