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Girl Scouts Caught Up in Salmonella Pistachio Recall

By PritzkerLaw

It's been hard to keep up with all the food product recalls related to Salmonella-tainted pistachios grown and roasted in California.

The sweeping domino affect of one large distributor (Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc.) selling more than 1 million pounds of adulterated pistachios to re-baggers and other food companies has now tumbled onto Girl Scouts of the USA. Of all the companies that purchased the wholesale pistachios, only one of them did microbiological testing that found the problem and reported it. And it wasn't the Girl Scouts.

Ashdon Farms of Waukesha, Wisconsin, has recalled certain code dates of 7.5 ounce Girl Scouts Pistachios packed in pop top cans. The company's recall notice said no illnesses have been reported in connection with the potentially contaminated nuts.

The pistachios were sold for fund-raising purposes by Girl Scout Councils in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. Almost all of the cans were sold between October and early December 2008.

The complete list of all pistachio product recalls is being kept by the Food and Drug Administration.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).