Parker Products, Inc. Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Certain Peanut Butter Products

Parker Products, Inc. Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Certain Peanut Butter Products
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Parker Products, Inc.
800-433-5749

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Fort Worth, TX, January 22, 2009 – Parker Products, Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of certain Peanut Butter products because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled products contain peanut butter supplied by Peanut Corporation of America, which is the subject of the ongoing investigation concerning the recent Salmonella outbreaks. Neither Parker Products nor its customers have received any reports of illness connected to any of these products.

Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.

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