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The voluntary recall came single in kind appointed time after the government advised consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, frozen water cream and other foods with peanut butter until health officials learn more about the contamination.

The announcement through McKee Foods of Collegedale, Tenn., about two kinds of Little Debbie products was another in a string of voluntary recalls after the most recent direction by soundness officials.

The South Bend Chocolate Co. in Indiana said Sunday it, too, was recalling various candies containing peanut butter from Peanut Corp. of America. In suburban Chicago, Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products recalled single brands of peanut-butter cookies it sells through Wal-Mart Stores.

McKee said it had not received a single one complaints about illnesses from people who ate any size peanut-butter toasty sandwich crackers or peanut-butter cheese-sandwich crackers. The recall covers crackers produced on or with respect to July 1.

Officials are focusing upon peanut paste, as well as peanut butter, produced at a Blakely, Ga., facility owned by Peanut Corp. Its peanut butter is not sold directly to consumers but distributed to institutions and food companies.

But the peanut paste, made from roasted peanuts, is an ingredient in cookies, cakes and other products that people buy in the supermarket.

So far, more than 470 people have gotten sick in 43 states, and at in the smallest degree 90 had to be hospitalized. At least six deaths are core blamed on the outbreak. Salmonella is a bacteria and the most common source of food poisoning in the U.S., causing diarrhea, cramping and fever.

Also Sunday, the composer of Peter Pan peanut butter reported none of its products are associated by the outbreak. Peter Pan and other peanut butter produced by ConAgra Foods were linked in 2007 to a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 625 people in 47 states.

The company recalled all its peanut butter and eventually traced the contamination to a leaky roof and faulty sprinkler commander at its Georgia breed. In a statement, ConAgra said it does not buy any ingredients from Peanut Corp.

Kellogg, what one. listed Peanut Corp. as one of its suppliers, has recalled 16 products. McKee said Kellogg manufactured the Little Debbie crackers covered by the recollect.

The Kellogg products recalled comprise Austin and Keebler branded peanut-butter sandwich crackers, and some snack-size packs of Famous Amos peanut-butter cookies and Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle peanut-butter cookies.

Late Saturday, the Midwest supermarket congeries Hy-Vee, of West Des Moines, Iowa, said it was voluntarily recalling products made in its bakery departments with peanut butter on this account that they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The recall covered seven states: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota.

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