So how does salmonella get into peanut butter?

[MGS_forgot_password]

Do they use chickens to crack open the peanuts?

[Seacrest]

How does peanut butter get into salmonella?

[The Grim Ninja]

Well, see... nuts count as meat on the food pyramid.

Apparently they're poultry. Thus, they were shipping raw/undercooked peanut butter.

[LaserKun]

You really do not want to know...

[vision63]

Cow, poultry and pig farms near peanut fields probably. With the lettuce and spinach scares, feral pigs brought nastyness from Cow fields over to the vegetable fields. If I recall correctly.

[AlphaDog]

Salmonella can be transferred through water, too, so it could have been something used in the processing of the peanuts/peanut butter.

There were some salmonella tainted almonds grown in California a few years ago; even though they identified where the contaminated almonds were grown, apparently they could never track the initial source of the bacteria. It affected people who ate the nuts raw.

[OWC Jamie]

[Z]

By swimming up the peanut butter streams of eastern Georgia...

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I think it is from the farm raised salmon.

[zachdog]

NPR mentioned yesterday that scientists thought the plastic bottles may have been improperly cleaned prior to filling and packaging.