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How does salmonella get into peanut butter?
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Aug 22, 2014
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How does salmonella get into peanut butter?
In light of this week's nationwide recall of peanut and almond butter, a food safety expert explains how peanut butter can get salmonella in it in the first place.
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In light of this week's nationwide recall of peanut and almond butter, a food safety expert explains how peanut butter can get salmonella in it in the first place.

The Food and Drug Administration announced this week that nSpired Natural Foods, a major supplier of nut butters, is voluntarily recalling some peanut and almond butters over concerns about possible salmonella contamination. Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, explains how peanut butter becomes contaminated with salmonella and why it seems to happen so often.