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What is with the lying imbeciles and the "salmonella peanut butter?"
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 240939:MV8zNjkxMzZfODExMjMxNV9GNzYxNDJD] [quote:Redheaded Stepchild] I personally know 2 people who got sick from peanut butter, in 2 diff. states. OP are you saying the contamination was on purpose? On purpose? Hmmmmmm...hadn't thought about that until now. You might be onto something. [/quote] Here is some DOOM for you on a slow day/week! Is there a possibility that the recent and very expensive salmonella outbreaks are a [b]non-spectacular terror event[/b]? Why not? This would require no training, no expensive materials, and the possibilities of getting caught are almost nil. All you would need is a person with the right mindset to cause injury or death by finding a way to introduce fecal matter into the food chain, which is just what happened to ConAgra in Omaha, Nebraska recently. Injury and death are one obtainable outcome for this type of attack, but more importantly, the cost in dollars to mitigate such an attack can seriously damage a corporation if not drive it into bankruptcy. ConAgra makes pot pies and peanut butter. Between pot pies at +60 million and the peanut butter at +140 million, the total cost is above 200 million for this one company! How can they survive as a company? You can bet one of the ways is to raise prices, which is another outcome of this type of non-spectacular terror attack. Cost in dollars, injury, death, and live to fight another day! [/quote]
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Anybody with half a brain knows that peanut butter does not have enough moisture content to support bacterial growth of anything. That is why you can spoon some out of a jar when you've had the spoon in your mouth, put the lid back on, and eat some more a week later. Bacteria cannot grow in it. Salmonella MUST grow to a critical level before it is capable of sickening a person. It cannot grow in peanut butter, let alone piping hot liquid peanut butter just squirted into a jar and sealed with foil and capped. How hot is liquid peanut butter? Heat some in a pan until it liquifies and measure the temp with a candy thermometer-likely well above 180 degrees F. Salmonella is killed at 165 degrees F. So now they say a "leaky roof" supplied moisture for the salmonella-sure. I guess it somehow penetrated the foil seals and lids to gain access to the stored peanut butter. Pretty dang stupid.
"When making peanut butter, the nuts are again heated - above the salmonella-killing temperature of 165 degrees - as they are ground into a paste and mixed with other ingredients before being squirted into jars and quickly sealed.
Experts had speculated that salmonella would be most likely to contaminate the peanut butter as it cools and is placed in jars. At most plants, those steps take just minutes."
You think scalding hot peanut butter cools down in "a few minutes?"
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