Heard this on the news this morning. That's all anyone needs who is minus a colon!

I had salmonella poisoning when I had my colon and it was no fun! In fact it may have been the so called "trigger" that led to my UC.

The salmonella poisoning I had came from eating undercooked chicken.

Trader joes also feeds antibiotics to their animals. There are a lot of petitions going on over them lately.

The recall has been expanded to include peanut butter with flaxseed and almond butter.

http://www.traderjoes.com/abou...s-responses.asp?i=86

In addition, it is not just Trader Joe's, but a number of other stores that distribute nut butter products from Sun Land (including Sprouts).
http://www.sunlandinc.com/788/...fs/SunlandRecall.pdf

As to the antibiotics and animals issue, I don't know what the relevance is to the possible nut butter contamination, since the chain just purchases meat (like regular grocery stores), they do not have their own ranches as far as I know. They are not Whole Foods. Consumer Reports is asking all grocers to stop selling meat raised on antibiotics, not just TJ's.

Jan

I just read that 3 of the 29 reported Salmonella cases nationally in the USA are in Connecticut:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/art...expanded-3890570.php

There are 4 Trader Joe's stores in Connecticut. I shop at the one in Orange which is an absolute gold mine with more customers than they can handle on a Saturday afternoon.

I wonder how this expanded recall will impact their business?

What I like to buy there is their dried fruit and nuts, frozen fruit and their mesquite honey. Fortunately I bought my peanut butter at Whole Foods Market.

Can't imagine it would be any worse than any of the other many food recalls in the past. And remember, it is not just TJ's, and it is a very small part of their inventory. Plus, the recall does not mean every jar is tainted. It mostly is a precaution.

I seldom eat nut butters anyway (too calorie dense), but I can see how this could be a problem if you are a big fan. Still, there are many dozens of peanut butter brands to choose from. The only time I have gotten food poisoning, it has been from restaurant food. It was not a happy time...

jan

Oh my, I eat Trader Joe's Almond Butter. I love it. I looked in both the Fairfield and Orange CT stores and there were none on the shelves. Now I know why.

great.... i love trader joes. I usually mix peanut butter with my protein smoothies but I am about to cut it out entirely with all of these salmonella cases. I still think underlying salmonella could be the culprit in a lot of UC cases. Our world is so self-destructing

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I still think underlying salmonella could be the culprit in a lot of UC cases

As I mentioned earlier, it appears to have been in my case. It came from eating undercooked chicken I believe some time in October of 1972, and the only reason I can remember the month is that on that trip when I was poisoned we watched the World Series and the Cincinnati Reds played the Oakland As that year. I was at my Aunt's house in Pennsylvania. She made the chicken. My aunt is someone who is always cooking new things and it was likely a new recipe she was trying. After that I was in and out of hospitals until early 1973 when the diagnosis of UC was made.

The salmonella poisoning was no fun. From what I recall, I had severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. It kind of put a damper on what was otherwise a nice trip.

By the ways, that Aunt is still alive, lives in New York now and I never mentioned to her that her chicken was the reason for my IBD. I certainly don't blame her, and one other strange thing: I was the only one who got sick. I assume because I ate the only undercooked chicken part. Bad luck.

Another explanation is that you were the only one susceptible in that way. When I got food poisoning a decade or so ago from eating weird shrimp in a restaurant, my husband ate the same thing. He felt funny for a few hours, I launched into unrelenting diarrhea that progressed into chronic pouchitis that took months to get over. Strange thing is that a few years later, HE was diagnosed with UC. So, I guess he had similar susceptibility, but perhaps at that moment, his immune system had not gone bonkers yet.

Hey, I just noticed you were diagnosed with UC the same year as me, 1972. I was almost 16 then. Ah, the days before fiberoptic scopes (definitely NOT the good ole' days)!

Jan

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I just noticed you were diagnosed with UC the same year as me, 1972

I actually believe I was "officially" diagnosed in January 1973, but that the symptoms started in October 1972 after the salmonella poisoning. It's strange but I have three very vivid memories from that horrible stretch of my life from October 1972 to January 1973.

The first is laying in a hospital bed in Bridgeport, Connecticut in late 1972, as a 9 year old boy, and watching on TV as Joe Namath and the New York Jets took on Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts, with Namath passing for over 500 yards. Namath had been my very first sports idol because in Christmas 1970 I had received a Jets helmet and a Namath uniform as gifts from my late Uncle who was a Jets fan.

The second was being taken to Montefiore Hospital in Bronx NY, then a hospital specializing in pediatric care, to find out was wrong with me. I can remember hearing the song "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon on the radio as we drove up to the hospital. The song had just come out at that time. It was either December 1972 or January 1973, I think.

The third is my mother passing out and hitting the floor when the people at Montefiore told her that they needed to run some tests for leukemia on me.

My diagnosis came shortly after being released from Montefiore and being referred to a then very young, Yale-educated gastroenterologist in Bridgeport, CT, who ultimately rendered the correct diagnosis that had eluded specialists at 3 different hospitals.

It was a totally different IBD world in 1972-1973, one I am glad we do not have to live in now.

My parents were worried sick that I had cancer because none of the doctors would say anything until they knew for sure what was going on. Of course, a mind runs amok when not given information. Just doctors frowning and shaking their heads. I had to go to the adult ward because there weren't any open beds in pediatrics. My vivid memory (other than in the endoscopy room) was the dying elderly roommate with the death watch vigil until she finally died. Nice roomy for a teenage girl, huh? Good thing I was considered mature for my age...

Jan

I was at the Trader Joes in Orange, Connecticut shopping this morning. They had a letter to all customers hanging over the shelf where the peanut butter is stocked. The letter apologized for selling tainted peanut butter, specified all the brands and varieties that were tainted (there were at least a dozen) and mentioned very prominently that they all had best by September 24 dates stamped on them. So if you have some peanut butter you bought at TJs' a few months ago with that "best by" date, and it is still lurking on your shelf, throw it out.

I did not buy any peanut butter; just picked up their mesquite honey and applewood-smoked turkey bacon.