Now the suspect is Pistachios?!

So far this year we've had a peanut butter recall, which would be the second time peanut butter has been recalled in two years. Reasoning for being recalled? Salmonella. Salmonella is the most frequently reported case of food borne illnesses, according to the USDA. Two years ago the peanut butters that were the guilty parties were Peter Pan and Great Value. Even now, right on Peter Pan's website it states that "We’d like to assure you that Peter Pan Peanut Butter is safe to eat and no varieties of Peter Pan Peanut Butter have been recalled. ConAgra Foods, the maker of Peter Pan Peanut Butter, has confirmed that none of the ingredients used to make Peter Pan Peanut Butter come from any location operated by Peanut Corporation of America, the company that has recalled peanuts and peanut ingredients."

However, this year it was King Nut, and according to sources, this brand isn't sold directly to consumers. It may have also been in products in your cupboards. A news release right on the main page of their website date January 12, 2009 (two days after the recall) states: "We issued the recall after learning that salmonella had been discovered in an open container of peanut butter with our label. We also made it clear that we do not manufacture King Nut peanut butter nor do we supply any ingredients for the peanut butter. We are simply the distributors." A paragraph later their news release read: "(King Nut peanut butter is distributed to food service companies in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, Arizona, Idaho and New Hampshire.)" Companies that had to recall items because of King Nut's peanut butter were Little Debbie, Hy-Vee, Perry's Ice Cream and Kellogg's.

But now there is another salmonella scare. Pistachios. You know, those shelled greenish colored nuts. Which are usually a popular snack and help improve cholesterol according to California Sungold.com. They also are useful in a lot of other things, such as being good in plants as drainage chips.

So what is so wrong with them?!?! Well, according to the article on MSNBC.com, investigation started on Thursday from a California nut processor to its sister plant in New York, where inspectors last month found cockroaches and rodent droppings. The FDA is investigating the nut plant Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, Calif. Setton Pistachio recalled 2 million pounds of pistachios according to MSNBC.com.

For all the guilty parties involved in the peanut butter incident and now the pistachio incident, this is not good PR at all! I personally may never want Peter Pan peanut butter ever after knowing they were recalled. Same goes for pistachios, and they are good!, after all is said and done and they figure everything out, Setton's sales may go plummeting down. It is going to take a LOT of work for them to get out of the rut they're going to be in. Take another look at what Peter Pan's website had on it front web page, they are going to have to assure assure assure people that nothing is in their products.