I was shocked to find that I in fact had 2 jars of opened peanut butter that has been recalled. I have two children ages 8 and 9, that eat this product on a regular basis. For the past month both children have been complaining of stomach problems, and this is unlike them. They have missed a couple days of school and been late due to this problem. I also have had to miss those days from work to be with them. I think that compensation on the peanut butter is far from fair to the consumers! And it is not healthy for our families to put our trust in your product and find out that we have been basically poisoning ourselves with it!

I want my money back ....I ate almost a whole jar and my stomach hasn't been right at all and all I buy is peter pan..Never again I'm switching to JIF!!!

I felt so bad after hearing about this, my daughter dose wine alot, but for the past week and a half she had complained of sparatic headaches, stomach aches, and diahrea . Not knowing about the salmonella I assumed she was just being whiney. I am so angry with the peter pan people I wanna scream. How could this happen!? I also have a 2 yr old that can't tell me how she feels, so she probably went thru the same thing as my other daughter. How could this happen???!!! Please escuse my spelling

And I thought I was doing a good thing by eating peanut butter instead of jelly on my toast for an afternoon snack. I have so many questions, 5 jars of the Peter Pan and an auto immune disease. Does anyone know if there is a 1-800 number to call, or do we the consumers just get to wait this out as guinea pigs for the peanut butter companies?!? AAGHHHH!!! I'm hungry, but I can't stop eating cause then I might die, but if I eat my peanut butter...

man, thats messed up..my favorite teacher Ms. mitchel was eatin that. she want her $$money$$ back!!!! :(

i knew it was somthin wrong PETER PAN...thats why i been eatin JIF all my life...i dont rust that bullshit

Oh Yuck and bummer... two jars in my cabinet Great Value from WalMart with the 2111 code. Grossed out... if anyone starts a class action suit - count us in. Been worrying that our well water was affecting our intestines... never dreamed peanut butter.

It is frightening. I had nightmares while reading Fast Food Nation, in which ConAgra was mentioned. I've been trying to cover these types of issues in both my personal blog, Expatriate's Kitchen, and as an author for Eat Local Challenge (http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/authors_expat_chef/index.html)

The above site is a great resource with tons of good authors on eating local and opting out of the processed foods system.

Issues like this have cemented my decision to buy local from producers I know, cook more real foods, and practice involved awareness in my family's eating. It's been an amazing journey, and I am happy to say, we have never enjoyed food more. I highly recommend it.

The tainted peanut butter is coming from the illegal aliens who work at the factories. They put human waste to poison Americans because they are angry about the new immigration policies. The same thing happened in 2006 with the E-coli in the spinach and again with the lettuce in Taco Bell. California spinach, Taco Bell, Wal-Mart; see the trend yet?

Jimmy,

I didn't know how to respond to your comment, so I'll go the route which comes easiest - to simply mock you to all my friends and to use you as a shining example of what's wrong with the world.

We all thought over here in East Texas that it was a flu bug going around... and to find out that it is peanut butter... I am in demand for justice.....

I had no idea, I just thought I wasn't able to eat nuts anymore!

Now is a great time to investigate organic foods. I usually buy natural peanut butter but recently bought Peter Pan #2111. Just my luck. Organic foods taste much better without the additives, growth hormones and pesticides. It might cost more, but it's better for your health. I learned my lesson (again)!

I'am sick for the last 5 days and still , who will pays my doctor's bill

My whole family has been so sick for 6 weeks. We thought maybe there was something seriously wrong with us. Nope, we just ate 3 jars of tainted peanut butter!!! What can we eat anymore?
I called our health department. They want stool samples, and our peanut butter so they can have the numbers.

Uhh... i just ate some of that peanut butter like.. 20 minutes ago, and now I read this... crap...

my fiance and i have been having stomach cramping like crazy and just attributing it to stress, etc. we had a jar of evil, contaminated peanut butter! i think he's trying to kill me cause i always buy skippy but he bought peter pan. or... maybe the illegal aliens ARE trying to poison me with human feces. hard to tell.

My wife has been sick for the past week. We just figured out why. 2 1 1 1 Peter Pan Peanut Butter!

Stop whining people. You buy processed crap, you take your chances.

My poor husband looked like crap for 3-4 days, it actually scared us on how often he was going to the restroom....worried he would dehydrate he would drink gatorade. we thought he had some food poisoning.....sure enough he had eaten an apple and lots of peanut butter before all these symptoms showed up! so glad my little girl did not eat out of that peter pan jar.

My poor husband looked like crap for 3-4 days, it actually scared us on how often he was going to the restroom....worried he would dehydrate he would drink gatorade. we thought he had some food poisoning.....sure enough he had eaten an apple and lots of peanut butter before all these symptoms showed up! so glad my little girl did not eat out of that peter pan jar.

I found I ate a whole jar of the Peter Pan peanut butter with the 2111 number! This really upsets me because I am pregnant, and after I had surgery last month all I could do was eat peanut butter toast! To think eating this peanut butter could have killed my baby makes me sick. I will never eat Peter Pan again I am switching to JIF at least they haven't tried to posion their consumers!!

My close friend had one of the great value jars from wal mart and a jar from peter pan with the 2111 code on it. its so scary to see him so sick and im so worried. he gets sweaty all of a sudden and he gets fevers suddenly. today i went to visit him after work and he couldnt stop shaking!! his muscles were shaking uncontrobably and i was so nervous for him. the scary part is, is that there is no cure for it and you just have to wait it out. i hope the peter pan makers get every law suit against them that are possible!!!!! >:0

I was out for a week and half with what I thought was the stomach flu. My inlaws were so sick that my an ambulance was called twice for my father-inlaw who passed out from dyhrdation and glucose issues related to his diabetes. Low and behold we had the lot numbered peanut butter and had been eating it. To make matters worse.....because I thought I had the flu, each time I thought I would eat something, I ate peanut butter on bread in hopes of gettign sometthign in my stomach and now I know why I kept getting sicker adn not better.

for any of you who still have jars i seriously recommend NOT to throw out the jars its ur only proof. i wouldnt trust the f.d.a these days.it seemes coincidental that the f.d.a just approved genetic peanuts 3 months ago and will do what ever is necessary to protect the biotech industry .hence genetic enginneering

First the E-coli in the spinach and lettuce, and now Salmonella in Peanut-butter, scientists keep saying that genetic modification the best thing since sliced bread, sure, the food looks better, as long as you don't mind the chance of getting sick, why do we pay for this crap? We oughta be paying to get these company's sued, brought to justice, and ultimately put out of business forever, you shouldn't have to worry about eating a food, usually when you pay for something, its because you are not capable of creating it safely yourself, if this is the case, we'd be better off just eating low-quality homegrown peanuts.

Please stop whining! Just because there was a germ outbreak does not mean "they" are trying to kill you. We here in the US have one of the safest food supplies in the world. Many people around the world only have tainted disgusting water available to drink and literally eat rats for food. Food poisioning has always occured and I do not see how food additives encourage bacteria to be in food, it could just as easily happen in an organic product. Everyone please get a grip! I have had food posioning before and I did not feel a sudden urge to make anyone "pay" for my pain and suffering. Things like this are just an occasional part of life, please enjoy the great life that we have here in the US and do not let yourself always be the victim.

Clay, let me guess. You're a nurse in real life, right?

I kid, I kid. Clearly you show all of the compassion of a kid who fries ants with a magnifying glass.

I actually, believe it or not 3 full jars and one almost gone jar of Peter Pan Plus with the dreaded code starting with "2111".... now the question is where do I send the tops for full reimbursement of my money!!!

My roommate ate half her jar of peanut butter before I heard the news and checked it, of course, 2111. But she has been fine. To all who were sick...if it happens again, try limiting your diet severly to figure out what is giving you problems, i recommend the BRAT diet - Bananas, rice, applesauce (not apples, only sauce) and toast (with only butter or margarine). While upset stomach and diaherra are not fun and can make life miserable, it could have been more severe, like I had 2 full days of vomitting, high fever, aches all over, headache and weakness from some bad food I ate at a dinner. and that is not as bad as some cases i've heard of. if we closely monitor what we're eating when we get sick, then we can possibly stop cases like this happening in the future. Part of the responsibility rests with us, the consumer, to report issues and problemsm since I'll bet most people who manufacture the product are so sick of seeing it they never eat it.

From everything I've read, NO salmonella has actually been found in the peanut butter. They are just assuming that peanut butter is the culprit because a number of people who became ill ate peanut butter. So I don't think everyone needs to panic. I wonder how many cases of stomach trouble are not actually food poisining but an emotional reaction to the thought thay they might have food poisoning.

I bought a 40oz jar of the GV PB in october. We don't eat lots of PB but we do have it regularly, about once a week for lunch. I never put it together, that my two youngest were getting sick alot in the last couple of months and my oldest started having intestinal problem. Her doctor's were baffle and their was no reason to test for Salmonella, we don't eat many product you normally associate with Salmonella. We have tested her stool and the peanut butter and they both show Salmonella. I am so angry. We are $10K in debt to hospital's and doctors. She been hospitalized four times since October and to the ER about 8 times. She has had to have an Colonopsy (?SP) and Biospy. She is 10 years old.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that this company knew that they had a salmonella contamination back in July, and now I am hearing reports that it may have been as early as May 2006 when they found out about it and said nothing to the public and didn't pull their product off the selves.
We are suing and if others are out there that have experienced this or worst then KEEP THE JAR OF PB you might need it for evidence. Take the jar to an Independent lab and have it tested, but do not leave the jar with them have them take a sample and take the jar with you and put it in you Fridge. Have your stool tested. You have to prove you got sick from their neglect.
People who just got flu systoms your wasting your time on a class action suit. In cases like this you may get $20 or $30 when it is all said and done. But if you have gotten really sick like my child or other people around the US. One child had to have half his intestines removed. My daughter's colon has aged 60 years because of this and she'll need medical care the rest of her life. A child in Missouri has reportly died. Its severe cases like this that will actually get something for the company knowing and not pulling their product.
Good luck to everyone and I hope you get over your illnesses soon. I hope you can make a full recovery. My daughter won't get better, we may be able to stop it from progressing but she'll need medical care for the rest of her life and if I have anything to do with it Con Agra Foods will be paying the bills.

Wow what a god send...I can get the hospital bills paid(for that broken leg), Truck paid off, new house, and retire!! WOO HOO....Lawsuit here I come!!

I just can't say enough good stuff about having someone to sue !! I love my country !!

Ok If you don't see the scarcasam here let me point it out. Get real people.

If you actually did suffer from the effects of food poisoning, I like to be the first to say "Welcome to the club" and be glad you got thru it.

There is no 24hr flu. If you had some 24hr. "Stomach Flu" guess what? You had food poisoning.

If you or a loved one had to be hospitalized, AND you can PROVE that it was the Peanut Butter (Good luck with that) then the company SHOULD be required to cover your medical expenses but thats it.

We call this life. You are NOT entitled to be "Safe" all of the time.

We have become WAY to sue happy.

Wow... after reading up on Salmonella and the more serious but rare effects of it... I've been affected by it so much it's scary.

Based on what I know, it's done more than the diarrhea and digestive problems.

Apparently Salmonella can easily fake the effects of a flu. I thought I had 3 flus in one year, which is impossible.

I also had a lot of problems with my joints cramping up. (Reiter's Syndrome) The good thing is, it's been about a week and a half since I touched that peanut butter and they're now mostly going away. (Thankfully). I've read that these effects can persist between 4 weeks and a year, sometimes even permanent.

I'm so glad I know about this now. I'm keeping the jar so that it can be tested, since the salmonella is likely already gone from my body by now.

To Michelle - I'm very sorry to hear that your child is so sick and will have medical problems for the rest of her life. This is indeed very unfortunate, and in the reason that civil lawsuits exist. I hope you receive compensation for the irreversible complications that caused by the contaminated food.

To the others, count yourselves extremely lucky that you are not in this situation and quit crying over food poisoning. This is the reason that lawsuits have become what they are today, overrun and ridiculous. The people that actually deserve compensation (those that have actually been wronged) are the ones to suffer for your thoughtless greed. Instead of having the twenty or so people that suffered severe salmonella poisoning filing claims for damages, we have 20,000 people wanting to sue for $4 to get their money back or because they missed a couple days of work.

I hate to tell you this, but everyone is exposed to salmonella all the time. It's usually the elderly, small children and those with weakened immune systems that can't fight it off and therefore develop severe salmonella poisoning. If you are generally healthy, you might get stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea. You could have ten jars of salmonella tainted peanut butter in your cabinet, but even having a doctor's note saying that you had flu-like symptoms for a few days is not going to prove you had salmonella poisoning or that it came from the peanut butter.

I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad, but thank God that you're not taking your children to the enterologist for painful testing and possible surgery. If you caught the flu after someone sneezed on you on the bus, you wouldn't be suing the city for reimbursement. Cut your losses and don't clog up the legal system for those people who were really injured in this matter.

What about other brands? I know the news sites all cite only Peter Pan and GV. I've been eating Skippy for a few weeks now and have the same symptoms - no fever or vomiting, but certainly all the other unpleasantness. Thank God for Immodium. It works until it quits working... how sure are we that it's brand-specific and not product (as in peanuts and peanut butter made by anyone?) specific? I'm not trying to sound paranoid - just trying to find an explanation for why, every time I eat some PB and crackers at lunch time at work, within an hour, I'm sending my lunch down the sewer system? Anyone else having similar symptoms but with other brands?

This hole ordeal is really aggervating. Our children were both sick for days and we just assumed it was our move upsetting them, or the stomach virus that was going around.
Even a couple days after the "Peter Pan"info released we had contined to consume the walmart brand not knowing.
We never did take them to the dr at the time assuming it was just their nerves or a stomach virus. Now we feel bad, but who would have ever thought it was something they ate.

Every one in our area was being told by doctors there was a "bad stomach virus" going around for the last couple months... I think they call it peanut butter now.. lol

OK folks, lets grow up. I have yet to see where the bacteria was present in UNOPENED jars of peanut. Is it just possible there was some cross contamination going on here? Not to say that it didn't happen, but can't we give ConAgra the benefit of the doubt? I am sure we have all been guilty of putting the knife back in the peanut butter jar after dipping it in the jelly, or on the bread.

JUST A THOUGHT :>

Terry

A lot of people seem to be upset with the peanut butter folks, but let's get real folks. Life is risky! The peanut butter folks make and sell billions of jars every year. This is, to my knowledge, the first time they've had contamination. Considering what all can go wrong, the fact that this kind of thing happens so infrequently should cause us to applaud these companies!! If you made you're own peanut butter you'd be at a much greater risk of salmonella! Back when people canned there own food, people got sick all the time and many even died! One person here said they will "buy local from producers I know". Bad response to this situation!! Local producers don't spend millions of dollars to ensure that their product is not contaminated! You are at a greater risk of getting salmonella from a local maker than form a big company. So why do you not hear of people getting sick from local makers? Because there are so few local makers! If everyone bought food from local suppliers, or grew their own, way more people would be getting sick! Think about it!

A lot of people seem to be upset with the peanut butter folks, but let's get real folks. Life is risky! The peanut butter folks make and sell billions of jars every year. This is, to my knowledge, the first time they've had contamination. Considering what all can go wrong, the fact that this kind of thing happens so infrequently should cause us to applaud these companies!! If you made you're own peanut butter you'd be at a much greater risk of salmonella! Back when people canned there own food, people got sick all the time and many even died! One person here said they will "buy local from producers I know". Bad response to this situation!! Local producers don't spend millions of dollars to ensure that their product is not contaminated! You are at a greater risk of getting salmonella from a local maker than form a big company. So why do you not hear of people getting sick from local makers? Because there are so few local makers! If everyone bought food from local suppliers, or grew their own, way more people would be getting sick! Think about it!

i was sickened by the Peter Pan peanut butter for almost 2 months until I found out it was from this. I now looks like its going to be a class action lawsuit. I have a lawyer working on this. That company ConAgra Foods that had the bad containers that were dirty will prpbably pay out milllions of dollars to the lawyers and clients that were sickened by this. I am just one person that has a say on this. I don't think that this company is going to make it right for us consumers and all the surveys about this is on their side and not ours. This is my very first lawsuit, doctor bills, hiring a lawyer and I think we all are going to be not compensited, but a thank-you from ConAgra for being a good customer. This is too big off an issue now to forget about. You can contact me at RaymondChace@comcast.net I was sickened too.!!!!!!!!!

Don't kiss someone who gots Peter Pan peanut butter on their lips..... ...salmonella can be gotten
from them that way.

my stomach has been hurting for 2-3 weeks....I never ate the peanut butter....I don't know-hope it's not in other foods.
My husband eats Adams peanut butter and has'nt been sick.

I've been laid out by this salmonella contamination for about three days. I found two mostly eaten jars of 2111 Peter Pan in my cupboard last night. I thought I had some kind of flu, body aches, hot flashes, fever, vomit, diarhea (sp) etc. I've missed three days of work, and since the deductible on my health insurance is too high I haven't seen a doctor.

I'm not going to sue, I'm way too lazy for that, but I do think that those responsible (the jar washers, the peanut crushers, the evil immigrants wiping their asses with peanut butter lids)should be infected and left untreated for a few days.

Personal accountability for everyone, hear hear.

Okay, its been a while since the recall...but get this! I have been diagnosed with reactive arthritis due to Salmonella Poisioning, the latest of many diagnosis due to the peanut butter....from 1/06 to 2/07 I ate an apple a day with peter pan peanut butter, a good healthy snack...yeah right! During this time I saw the family doctor 22 times for viruses and infections in one part of my body to the other, neurologist for migraines and loss of feeling on the left side of my face, cardiologist for heart attack, I developed High Blood Pressure and Hypothyroidism, Hypoglycemia, Plantar Faciatis (wore a cast for 8 weeks) endured gum surgery where extractions would not heal...then the recall was announced...I stopped eating anything containing peanuts...slowly I got better and better...then my joints started hurting, and now something else from the salmonella!!! All because of a leaky roof a billion dollar company neglected to fix!!! Will I sue? ---- YES!!! would you?

My friend ate a contaminated jar of Peter Pan last year and has been sick all year with one thing after another. Was perfectly healthy before. She was most recently diagnosed with Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, and never had any symptoms until after she was sick from this peanutbutter. Has anyone else had this happen?

I ate that Peanut Butter and was in the hospital 3 times because of it. They told me it was bacterial colitis it wasn't until later I discovered I had the tainted Peanut Butter. Since then I have developed recurrent Iritis which is usually caused by an autoimmune disease. Could this be caused by the Salmonella?

Has anyone else experienced this?

I also have reiters syndrome from
salmonella peanut butter, it took
over a year and 4 doctors to tell
me this. I have been thru hell and
back. E.R. tries to rush you through not listening. My heart
was not beating right I had pain in my chest and something stabing me in the back short of breath
jaw pain shoulder pain left side
numbness and chest hurting with every breath,because my ESR was
0 they sent me home instead if checking CRP inflamation level
all thru 2007 into 2008 july
I have suffered hip pain severe
had to limp for 3weeks , low back
pain ,elbowpain foot pain so severe that pain shoots out of the top of your toes and cry, I have heel spurs and foot pain often ,also have sevre pain that
hits you all the sudden and you
yell or almost fall down . My eyes
have stickey stuff comming out of
them and pain shooting thru them
and the sun is entremely painful.
I have also peed the bed 5Xs I have bladder spasms,burning
and a stomach that goes thru the same cycle, I doubt that I named
every thing that is happening to
me, I continue to sleep in recliner because I know that my
heart sac is going to fill with
fluid.