Peanut Butter email from Food Lion Local Grocery

Dear Valued Customer, The FDA is conducting an active investigation into the source of theSalmonella Typhimurium outbreak and has traced a source of thecontamination to a plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America(PCA), which manufactures peanut butter and peanut paste.Food Lion, LLC (including Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, Reid's andHarveys stores) is working in cooperation with the FDA to pull allproducts that may contain contaminated peanut paste as an ingredient.A number of products containing peanut butter or peanut paste have beenrecalled, including a few from our stores, however, peanut buttersold in jars at our stores is not affected. The peanut butter beingrecalled is sold by PCA in bulk packaging to distributors for institutionalfood service industry use. None of the peanut butter being recalled is solddirectly to consumers through retail stores. Information regarding theongoing recalls can be found at the FDA web site:http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.htmlAlso, we are updating our web site, http://www.foodlion.com/FoodSafety/recalls.asp, with all products we have pulled.