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Peanut Butter Salmonella Deaths

A Minnesota man in his 70s who was living in a nursing home while coping with multiple health problems is the second person in the state to die after being sickened by a peanut butter-related outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium.

Doug Schultz, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, said the extent of Salmonella's contribution to the man's death is unknown. A week ago, Schultz said a Minnesota woman in her 70s who also had health conditions died after contracting the Salmonella bug. She too lived in a long-term care facility.

Fred Pritzker, one of the leading food safety lawyers in the U.S., said Wednesday he has been retained by the heirs of the Minnesota woman who died. His firm, Minneapolis-based Pritzker Law, is one of the few firms in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said commercially sold peanut butter is the likely cause of the outbreak, which began in mid-September and has sickened at least 425 people in 43 states.

The two companies involved in making and selling King Nut and Parnell's Pride peanut butter to nursing homes, hospitals, schools and other institutions have announced recalls of the product. The first to act was distributor King Nut Companies of Solon, Ohio. Then on Tuesday, Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America, the maker of both brands, announced its own voluntary recall of peanut butter produced at its Blakely, Georgia, processing plant "because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.''

Peanut Corporation said none of the recalled peanut butter was sold in grocery stores. The containers range in size from five to 50 pounds each. Customers were asked to immediately remove all peanut butter from 21 lots of production made after July 1, 2008.

The CDC has told consumers the outbreak doesn't appear to involve peanut butter sold in grocery stores. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published Peanut Corporation's recall announcement.

The FDA also published a related announcement from Kellogg Company of Battle Creek, Mich., relating to Keebler and Austin brand sandwich crackers containing peanut butter. Kellogg said it is voluntarily putting a "precautionary hold'' on all inventories it controls of certain sandwich crackers. Kellogg said it was taking the action because Peanut Corporation has been one of its peanut paste suppliers.

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