FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by spyderhead » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:47 am

Here's an odd one: I have 12 cases of the Sopako MREs (8287), and there is not one iota of peanut butter in any of these meals. Jell, yes; peanut butter, no. Not listed as a minor ingredient in anything in the meals. Well, the seller is sending 12 replacement cases for these "contaminated" ones. Guess I just doubled my MRE food storage. Seems that way. Anybody know where the peanut butter might be hiding?

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by kman » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:42 am

That kind of sounds like Sopakco doesn't keep track of exact which components go into each batch of MREs. Maybe you got "lucky" and during your production run, they temporarily ran out of peanut butter and just substituted jelly instead.

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by schliepich » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:32 am

After reading all the comments I'm still unsure about the MRE's. I got two cases from 2007 (A+B) (Sopakco packed).
Is anyone sure about that nothing of the contaminated peanut ingredients went into the military branch of the MRE's ?
Like Kman wrote that "Sopakco doesn't keep track of exact which components go into each batch of MREs". Can't find anything in the internet about that :(

Should I burn that stuff ?

Thanks,
Marc

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by Garron » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:36 am

I ate an Sopacko MRE from December 2007 including the peanut butter, I felt fine. Ok it was only 1 out of probably a 1000 produced that day so prehaps the odds were with me there.

Best advice I think is if your unsure just dont eat the Peanut butter, its the same with all rations you think somthings not right, don't take the chance. You still have the rest of the MRE to eat and not all with have peanut butter in anyway so if you come across one, Don't eat it.

Kann ich fragen? Wo in Deutschland bist du lokalisiert? (Can I ask? Where are you located in Germany? Please excuse any mistakes, most of the memeber here know I am trying to learn german and use it whenever I can :lol: )

Gaz

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by jfko6 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:36 pm

Here's an e-mail I received concerning an energy bar I bought from drugstore.com

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by schliepich » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:51 pm

Garron wrote:I ate an Sopacko MRE from December 2007 including the peanut butter, I felt fine. Ok it was only 1 out of probably a 1000 produced that day so prehaps the odds were with me there.

Best advice I think is if your unsure just dont eat the Peanut butter, its the same with all rations you think somthings not right, don't take the chance. You still have the rest of the MRE to eat and not all with have peanut butter in anyway so if you come across one, Don't eat it.

Kann ich fragen? Wo in Deutschland bist du lokalisiert? (Can I ask? Where are you located in Germany? Please excuse any mistakes, most of the memeber here know I am trying to learn german and use it whenever I can :lol: )

Gaz
Gaz,

thanks for your reply. That's what I normally do. If I'm not sure, I dont try it. Avoid the Risk !!!
(TRANSLATED: Danke für Deine Antowort. Normalerweise mache ich das auch so. Wenn ich mir nicht sicher bin, probiere ich es auch nicht. Vermeide das Risko !!!

Wo in Deutschland bist du lokalisiert? (Its better to say: "Wo wohnst Du in Deutschland or Woher kommst Du ?) German for Beginners :D

I'm living in a small town named Meerbusch, it is between Duesseldorf, Krefeld and Neuss...

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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by housil » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:06 pm

schliepich wrote:
Should I burn that stuff ?

Thanks,
Marc
Nabend erstmal in den Norden :wink:

Send it to me, I´ll burn it for you...


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Re: FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products

Post by Garron » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:38 pm

Ja, brennen mit der Magen (Yes, burn with the stomach) :lol:

Gaz

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