After having received advisories from the Food and Drug Administration and the Second Harvest Food Bank the about the recall of peanut butter products, Roger Baker – executive director, Cooperative Christian Ministries (CCM) – has pulled the salmonella-infected peanut products off the Catawba County food bank.

In November, a resident of the Catawba County seemingly died due to blood infection caused by salmonella strain – being one of the eight victims of the salmonella outbreak, which has also sickened nearly 600 people throughout the country.

Though the Catawba County Public Health Department did not provide either the identity of the victim or the date of the death, it confirmed the death was linked to tainted peanut products.

According to the FDA website, the supposedly contaminated products – traced back to the Georgia plant of Peanut Corporation of America - are those containing peanut butter and peanut paste – like cookies, cereal, candy, ice cream, crackers, as well as pet treats. Almost seventeen categories comprising more than 2100 products have been recalled by 200-odd companies.

However, the exhaustive list of tainted products increasing with each passing week, and the county food banks try to pull the products that are mentioned in list. Baker said: “We’ve already pulled everything that was on the list. We threw it out!”