The Los Angeles CBS channel 2 website reported in an article on January 21, 2009 that warnings were being handed out at three southern California schools over worries of salmonella contamination. According to Sweet Success Fundraising Inc.; based in Ontario, the peanut butter was distributed to three schools. Fremont Elementary in Alhabra, 93rd Street Elementary in Los Angeles, and Barstow Intermediate School in San Bernardino County, are the schools in question.
The cookie dough comes in three pound tubs at a cost of $14 each. Sweet Success claims that 170 of the tubs are contaminated. State officials say that no reports of illness or personal injury in California that have been tied to the cookie dough.
Reports by the California Department of Public Health said that the frozen cookie dough may have been prepared with peanut butter that was willingly recalled by the Peanut Corporation of America. No “use by” dates or lot codes were used in the packaging.
Health officials said that the Peanut Corporation of America recalled some of its peanut butter made at its Blakely, GA processing facility. This facility had been labeled as a “potential” for contamination with salmonella and sold to Sweet Success after December 8.
Serious and sometimes fatal infections can be caused by the salmonella bacteria, particularly in the young, elderly, and people with a weak immune system. Healthy individuals who become infected can experience the following symptoms: diarrhea, fever, vomiting, nausea, and abdominal cramps. Officials ask that anyone who purchased this cookie dough can call Sweet Success for a full refund at 909-947-5800.
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