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Thirteen-year-old Carl Morris took part in the study. A research team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge exposed children gradually to tiny amounts of peanuts over six months to build up their tolerance. You can’t go out to a restaurant. If your child goes to a birthday party, he takes a packed lunch. ”
It’s estimated that more than 150,000 Canadians suffer from peanut allergies. “It’s very hard to describe how much of a difference it’s (more…)

The Georgia peanut plant at the centre of a salmonella outbreak appears to have knowingly shipped tainted products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Peanut butter, chopped peanuts and peanut meal that tested positive were shipped out of the Blakely, Ga., plant before follow-up lab tests had determined the products were safe, the food safety agency alleged Friday.
The FDA had previously said that Peanut Corp. of America had retested (more…)

Canadians should not eat a brand of chocolate-dipped honey peanut bar, the latest salmonella-linked product that’s part of a growing recall of peanut products in the United States.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it has expanded a voluntary recall to include another snack food made in the U.S.
Isagenix’s Chocolate Dipped Honey Peanut IsaLean Bar in 2.29 oz or 65 gram size contains peanut butter or peanut paste recalled in the U.S. by (more…)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has added another 21 products to the growing recall list because the peanuts they contain may have been contaminated with salmonella.
Consumers should not eat the products, because Peanut Corp. of America has recalled them due to salmonella contamination.
“This is an ongoing food safety investigation,” the CFIA said Saturday, adding it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove all the contaminated (more…)

Another brand of snack food has been added to the list of products being recalled in the United States because of a potential link to a salmonella outbreak, which is blamed for at least six deaths.
The Tennessee-based company that sells Little Debbie snacks announced a recall Sunday of peanut butter crackers, one day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised consumers to avoid eating a variety of cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods (more…)

A salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 400 people in the United States has been conclusively linked to peanut butter, Minnesota health officials said Monday.
State health and agriculture officials said last week they had found salmonella bacteria in a 2.25-kilogram package of King Nut peanut butter at a nursing facility in Minnesota.
Over the weekend, health officials tested the bacteria and found a genetic match with the bacterial,
, which (more…)