The ripple impact of food borne illness is huge. In today’s exotic food consumption world, there are many steps and entities involved in delivering our food as it goes from the field to our forks, all of which end up bearing the economic brunt of recalls. So, in addition to the often brutal consequences for the victims of food borne illness from the physical perspective, there are serious economic penalties to many in the economic food chain.
In connection with the PCA peanut butter outbreak, there has been a continuing cascade of associated recalls. The most recent is Sconza Candy Company of California that is voluntarily recalling Alpine Trail Mix, Organic Chocolate Peanuts and Organic Toffee Cashews and Peanuts that were distributed from January 1, 2007 to February 10, 2009. According to the recall notice, these products contain peanuts obtained from the Plainview, Texas plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
