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DEL.ICIO.USLawmaker caught in peanut butter recall
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A lawmaker who represents one of Georgia’s biggest peanut producing areas had an admission to make Thursday: The jars of peanut butter he recently handed out to colleagues were among those recalled after they were linked to a salmonella outbreak.
State Rep. Ed Rynders, who represents a southwest Georgia region he calls the “peanut capital of Georgia” went to the well of the Georgia House to tell lawmakers and lobbyists to discard the peanut butter jars he recently gave them. He said he would make it up to them.
“Make sure you’ve discarded it,” warned Rynders, an Albany Republican. “We’re going to get you some good peanut butter and make sure you’re done right.”
Rynders said they were among the jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter that ConAgra Inc. told consumers to discard after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 288 people in 39 states since August. The affected peanut butter jars have a product code beginning with “2111,” the company said.
Federal health officials said the salmonella outbreak was linked to tainted peanut butter produced by ConAgra at a plant in Sylvester, Ga. How salmonella got into peanut butter is still under investigation, said Dr. Mike Lynch, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC officials believe the salmonella outbreak to be the nation’s first stemming from peanut butter. The most cases were reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.
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By Bob Warren
February 15, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this
We had some of the peanut butter also, although it didn’t come from a politician. It came from Publix.
By Mad Dog
February 15, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this
Throw it away?
Sounds very Republican to me. Sell salmonella and then tell people not to eat it.
How about my money back?
By Vitamin Z
February 15, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this
If it was something like spinach, everyone would be yelling “bloody murder” and closing plants right now.
By Dumbasse
February 15, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this
I had a jar, though it was mostly empty and none of us has been poisoned that I know of. Figures, though, that it was my crunchy peanut butter that was affected and not my wife’s creamy style.
I could have done the Democrat thing and asked for my money back for a jar that was already seven-eighths consumed. Instead, I did the Republican thing. I thanked God my family wasn’t poisoned and I threw the remainder away.
By Michael
February 16, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
I won a towing and storage case in Sylvester 11 years ago.
By cathy
February 16, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this
Settle down, MadDog. He was telling them to throw away the free samples he gave them.
If you go out to www.conagrafoods.com, there is an address to send the lids to. You’ll get a refund.
By Jim Etheridge
February 16, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this
I too have a nearly consumed jar of the 2lll peanut butter. No symptoms of Salmonella except an upset digestive system. I am not surprised at anything CONAGRA does. We no longer buy their chicken, too much of it bad. They have not made it easy to get out money back on the peanut butter if we have to mail in a lid. It will cost as much to mail the lid as the peanut butter cost…
By petunia
February 16, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this
I thought the Republicon thing to do was to figure out how to blame the whole peanut butter debacle on “Bill-ary”, the Democratic Congress, and the rest of the dirty, stinkin’, ‘murika-hatin libruls.
(no surprise that the majority of political contributions from this multimillion dollar agrabusiness goes to Republicons)
By Shakira Bethea
February 16, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
I am a Democratic and I want my money back, unlike the Republician’s who have stolen enough money to waste some of it (Dumbasse). I am not rich and I still have to buy more peanut butter for my kids.
By coyotoe
February 16, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
STOP MAKING THIS A POLITICAL THING. It just shows how divided we really are. Conagra is a large employer and they have a problem.They are trying to figure it out. Ther is no political agenda here except from you bleedinh heart Democrats.If you want to see waste in goverment just look at their past record.
By petunia
February 16, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this
Ther is no political agenda here except from you bleedinh heart Democrats
really? Maybe you should re-read D******* post and see who started the political name-calling. As for waste, didn’t I just read that this administration literally lost (as in “they don’t know where it is”) 363 tons of American dollars? Over $4,000,000,000 and they can’t even say whether it was used as bribes, as blood-recompense, or even of they used it to wipe their a—es. Yeah, I’m willing to compare the waste from the last “bleeding heart” Democratic administration with the resources p** away by this Republican one.
By Ranger
February 16, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
No, stop lying. You did not read where “this administration” lost four billion dollars. You people keep making up trash like that and then repeating it till it takes on an air of truth. What losers!
By Andy
February 16, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this
I have a jar of the tainted peanut butter. My family got sick, we didn’t have any state Rep’s telling us to throw it away.
By Mara
February 16, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this
Ranger - my bad. you caught me in a lie. It was actually $9,000,000,000 according to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (obviusly a left-wing shill…)
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-01/2005-01-31-voa15.cfm?CFID=96367923&CFTOKEN=23926860
An audit by a U.S. inspector says the U.S.-led authority that governed Iraq after the 2003 invasion failed to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to Iraqi ministries.
The audit released Sunday by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the Coalition Provisional Authority failed to establish control systems to verify how the money was spent, which opened it to corruption.
By Jerry
February 16, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
No problem on refunds. Called Publix & they graciously said they will refund. Not mailing lids! What has not throwing away the cost of 2 40 oz. jars of PB got to do w/my political persuasions? It has to do more with age & “a penny [more like $6] saved is a penny earned”. An idea hard to comprehend by some of our younger generation.
By Holly
February 16, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
Mystery solved…now I know why the dog got sick.
By Douglas K Midkiff
February 16, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this
I think that the Democratic Party should eat all of the peanut butter. It sure can’t do anymore damage to their brains. It might even give the republicans a chance to pass a few bills that are needed rather than just trying to fix Nancy’s mass confusion.
By DemGirl
February 19, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this
Petunia!! You are sooo funny but oh so correct. The Red team wants to blame the current Iraq crisis on the fact that Bill-ary did not take custody of OBL when they were given the chance. Yet it was Georgie-boys decision to invade because they had WMD. Yep, Bill-ary’s fault. I can certainly see the correlation! Thanks for the laugh my good friend!!!
As for peanut butter, my 8 year old ate the 2111 and he’s healthy as a horse. I guarantee some Repub is sitting somewhere on Wall Street reaping a windfall from this!!!
By Otis
February 20, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this
Many of the above comments are crazy. These idiots who have stated various comments not on peanut butter, (which is the main article) just used this blog area as a way to express their stupid feelings. These are the people who are dangerous to our country. They “mix” peanut butter with other problems of the country. Don’t these dingbats know the difference between peanut butter and other subjects?