we have a suspicious ar of peanut butter and I was wondering.....half the jar has already been used (it contains the 2111 product ID that may be infected with salmonella). Since we have already eaten half the jar and no one has gotten sick ....does that mean it is safe?
I will most likely throw it out anyway and buy a new one today when we do our shopping....but I was just curious. Because on the news they were talking about some of the people who got sick saying they still had the PB that got them sick in the cupboard and it made me wonder how it took them so long to make the connection.
2007-02-17 05:45:31 · 3 answers · asked by tiffany 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Yes, consider the jar thrown away.
The question is how people who already got sick had no idea it was the PB making them sick.
Is the entire jar infected or not? Is it a simple case of an immune system winning or losing?
I am not planning on serving up a bunch of PBJ's to my kids for lunch....just curious!
2007-02-17 05:55:50 · update #1
Skull...thanks for the info!
do you (or anyone) happen to know what sort of time frame we are looking at? How long can this stay in your system then? that's kind of scary!
2007-02-17 06:06:12 · update #2
DO NOT THROW that jar away. The sickness can remain in the body for quite some time and if a family member comes down with it, you will not have any evidence on the long class action long suit that is growing in numbers each day. The point is not to be evil and sue the company for millions, but prove a point with a class action lawsuit and let the company know this cannot happen again in the future.
My buddies little girl was sick from Peter Pan peanut butter and he made his wife keep the jar for evidence. I told him if they don't believe your case, you should offer to make them a peanut butter & jelly sandwich!
2007-02-17 05:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by SKULL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had 3 containers and 1 was 1/2 eaten also. We threw it away to be safe.
2007-02-17 05:55:10 · answer #2 · answered by Petra 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Better to be safer than sorry. Throw it away and buy a new jar.
2007-02-17 05:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by S H 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋