What happens to all the Peter Pan Peanut Butter being recalled?

Question

Just wondering what happens to all the peanut butter, and other food products that are recalled for health reasons.

Answer 1

It is tested to see how much of the batch is contaminated. An investigation is launched to find out the hows, wheres, and whys of the contamination. Finally the batch and all of the returned product is destroyed.

Answer 2

Usually, it is burned.

If you dispose of it in any other way then the contamination still exists and there is a risk of it reentering the environment. The two other best long term storage solutions we have available are landfills and burying it underground. We know now that landfills leak frequently and if you bury something then ground water can still enter the disturbed soil and reach the buried items. This is why dangerous thinks like medical wastes have to be treated in a plasma fire which will not only sterilize the material, but it will break it down to its composite parts with absolutely no chance of any living germ or virus surviving.

Answer 3

the peter pan peanut butter had semanila in it. ya sucks but i got extra crunchy skippy its good

Answer 4

I'm sure it's destroyed, what else would they do to it? And if you're up in arms about waste, um, remember there was the chance it was tainted and therefore not fit for human consumption.

Answer 5

What is collected in local stores just gets pitched in the garbage.

If it is collected en masse elsewhere, it must be treated as hazardous waste and be remediated. (meaning, expensive garbage)

Answer 6

The government is sending it to all the countries that the US doesn't like.