HHS, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are using social-media tools to relay information about the recall of peanut butter and other peanut products linked to recent outbreaks of Salmonella typhimurium.
An
FDA-maintained database listing all recalled peanut products can be searched by brand name or found by product category, and the agencies are using other media tools to broadcast the information, including YouTube, Twitter, a blog and a new
social media Web page from the three groups.
According to the CDC, there have been 550 cases in 43 states with the most recent reported illness on Jan. 17. Late last month the FDA said epidemiological analysis and laboratory testing by state officials in Minnesota and Connecticut allowed the FDA and CDC to confirm that the source of the outbreak of illnesses caused by Salmonella typhirmurium are peanut butter and peanut-paste products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America at its processing plant in Blakely, Calif. The agency plans to post its next update on Feb. 5.
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