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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — GREENACRES, WA– MARCH 12, 2009 — PREMIER PACKING COMPANY, GREENACRES, WA, IS RECALLING THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS: RAW REDSKIN PEANUTS, RAW SPANISH PEANUTS, AND RAW BLANCHED PEANUTS, TOASTED DICED PEANUTS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH SALMONELLA.
THE PRODUCTS WERE MANUFACTURED USING PEANUTS/PEANUT PRODUCTS RECALLED BY PEANUT CORPORATION OF AMERICA BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH SALMONELLA. SALMONELLA IS AN ORGANISM WHICH CAN CAUSE SERIOUS AND SOMETIMES FATAL INFECTIONS IN YOUNG CHILDREN, FRAIL OR ELDERLY PEOPLE, AND OTHERS WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. HEALTHY PERSONS INFECTED WITH SALMONELLA OFTEN EXPERIENCE FEVER, DIARRHEA (WHICH MAY BE BLOODY), NAUSEA, VOMITING AND ABDOMINAL PAIN. IN RARE CIRCUMSTANCES, INFECTION WITH SALMONELLA CAN RESULT IN THE ORGANISM GETTING INTO THE BLOODSTREAM AND PRODUCING MORE SEVERE ILLNESSES SUCH AS ARTERIAL INFECTIONS (I.E., INFECTED ANEURYSMS), ENDOCARDITIS AND ARTHRITIS.
PRODUCTS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO RETAIL STORES IN IDAHO, MT, OR, WA, CA, NV, TX, PA AND AK. PRODUCTS WERE PACKAGED IN 10 TO 30
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