Doesn't look like it is the natural kind, but for those who might have some Peter Pan or Great Value on hand:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/14....ap/index.html

Anne

Scary! My roommates and I eat more peanut butter than just about anything else. I'm convinced I had a mild case of salmonella (from uncooked egg, not peanut butter) over Christmas and it was not fun.

Thankfully, it's not the Full Circle kind. That's my favorite!

Peanut butter should be at pretty low risk for salmonella, I'd be very curious as to how the contamination occurred (my guess would be poorly washed equipment).

I saw that on the news this morning . Scary. I swear it seems lately there have been a lot of food contaminations, more so than usual. Spinach, lettuce, peanut butter.. makes me wonder sometimes if maybe highly processed foods are safer because the food has been heated and put through the ringer before we get it!!

Food poisoning has always been a common risk of food preparation. Anyone who has had a "24 hour virus" probably actually had a bacterial food bourn illness instead.

Usually food poisoning is a local event - one household, one restaurant.... and you never even hear about it. If someone gets salmonella from their own unwashed apple, it's unlikely to get noticed, let alone reported. However in food manufacturing, it isn't one family or one town affected, but potentially thousands across the country.

It's like air travel vs driving. Air travel is much safer statistically, with far fewer fatalities anually than in auto accidents. But more attention is given to a single plane crash than a single auto accident, because it is less common and because more people are affected in one incident. But this actually makes plane crashes (and mass food poisoning) seem alot more common than they actually are.

While it's much more likely we will at some point poison ourselves by our own mistakes in the kitchen, we're more afraid of someone else doing it, mostly because of the (mistaken) perception that there is less of a risk when we are the ones in control.

Good point Colleen. I have a friend who insisted on eating raw cookie dough for years, and sure enough, it finally caught up with her, and she was miserable for several weeks.

Thankfully, neither of these pb brands is sold in Alaska!

I actually had to throw away an old "tainted" jar of Peter Pan Honey Roasted pb that was supposedly from that particular batch, which was probably for the best anyway! I really don't need the extra sugars and chemicals in that stuff.