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More Peanut Butter Links to Salmonella

State and federal agencies have provided new updates on the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that has sickened 410 persons in 43 states since mid-September.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday that infections from the outbreak may have contributed to three deaths. In Minnesota, officials already were on the record saying that a woman in her 70s who had other health conditions died with an infection associated with the outbreak.(Minnesota Salmonella wrongful death information).



Minnesota's departments of agriculture and health have done additional microbiological tests on Salmonella bacteria found in an open five-pound container of King Nut creamy peanut butter. The container had been in use at a long-term care facility where one of Minnesota's 30 outbreak illnesses was reported.



The tests confirmed what the state investigators tentatively believed: That Salmonella bacteria found in the container had the same DNA fingerprint as the strains of bacteria associated with all the outbreak illnesses around the country.



Minnesota officials said they would continue their investigation, planning to test containers of King Nut peanut butter previously unopened.



Meanwhile, the CDC for the first time said preliminary analysis of an epidemiological study conducted by the CDC and multiple states suggests that peanut butter is a "likely source'' of the outbreak. The government health agency also mentioned the King Nut brand, but did not directly implicate it as the source of the outbreak.



"Clusters of infections in several states have been reported in schools and other institutions, such as long-term care facilities and hospitals, and King Nut is the only brand of peanut butter used in those facilities for which we have information,'' the CDC said.



Ohio-based King Nut Companies has announced a peanut butter recall of all the King Nut and Parnell's Pride peanut butter that it distributes. The food is manufactured by Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America. King Nut's president has said it only sells the peanut butter to commercial foodservice accounts, not to retail stores.



In advice to consumers, the CDC said the outbreak "to date'' has no association with common brand names of peanut butter sold in grocery stores. The agency also advised consumers who think they may have become ill from eating peanut butter to consult their health care providers.



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