Recall Affects Safeway’s Nut Huts

PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway is voluntarily recalling six varieties of dry roasted peanuts and all fresh ground peanut butter sold at 66 stores with “Nut Hut” kiosks.

The recall includes peanut butter ground by customers and taken to checkout for weighing, and peanut butter that is ground, weighed and labeled by store associates.

The move comes after Orchard Valley Harvest notified the retailer that it is voluntarily recalling a number of conventional and organic peanuts supplied to Safeway because the products may be contaminated with Salmonella. Orchard Valley Harvest has informed Safeway that it sourced the peanuts from Peanut Corporation of America.

The recall is being issued out of caution. No illnesses have been reported.

The expanding recall currently includes include all peanuts, both dry- and oil-roasted; granulated peanuts; peanut meal; and peanut butter and peanut paste made at PCA’s Blakely, Ga., facility since Jan. 1, 2007. More than 400 products are affected so far. T

here is no evidence at this time that national peanut butter brands were contaminated. The recall comes after eight people died and 529 people were sickened in 43 states after getting infected with Salmonella Typhimurium.

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