[ABC 11-5] CONSUMER ALERT: GROWING QUESTIONS
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): And now, [1]the peanut butter recall. We have been reading all your posts and emails to us about peanut butter and which brands are linked to [2]at least 30 cases of salmonella poisoning. So many of you have been asking us as we go through our kitchen cabinets, exactly what should we do? And ABC's Steve Osunsami now has a kind of user's guide for families.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(OC): Today, government official trying to [3]contain this salmonella outbreak told us it doesn't look good and to expect more reported cases linked to jars of peanut butter sold at [4]grocery stores across the country.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): So far, [5]30 people sick, most of them children, across 19 states. For families searching through kitchen cabinets tonight for potentially dangerous jars of nut butter, it's terribly confusing.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): First, [6]what jars and brands are being recalled? Well, it isn't your larger name brands like Jif or Skippy. Those products are fine. All of the recalled products are linked to the Sunland Peanut Butter Corporation in New Mexico.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): They make the peanut butter under many labels - the Sunland brand, Trader Joe's peanut butter, Harry and David, Sprouts, and the Archer Farms brand that's sold at Target.
DOCTOR ROBERT TAUXE (CDC): All the illnesses that have been investigated are related to the peanut butter products from the one plant.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): So now, you've found one of these brands in your cupboard. Should you automatically [7]toss it out?
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): The company says to look on the side of the jar for [8]the "best if used by" date. Anything between May 1st and September 24, 2014, throw it away. But [9]what if your family has already gone through half the jar?
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): What are [10]the signs of a salmonella infection? Doctors say high fever, [11]stomach cramps and [12]dysentery, which can show up within one to three days.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(OC): We talked with families of children who got sick and they tell us stories of [13]103-degree fevers that lasted for days.
STEVE OSUNSAMI (ABC NEWS)(VO): They were shocked to learn it may have started with their peanut butter. Steve Osunsami, ABC News, Atlanta.