Chocolate chip peanut butter cakes sold nationwide latest Jif-related recall

Jif peanut butter recall overview:

• Who: Prairie City Bakery recalled its Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. 
• Why: The product contains Jif peanut butter that was recalled due to the potential for salmonella contamination.
• Where: The recall is effective nationwide. 

Prairie City Bakery recalled one of its peanut butter cake products as the cake contains recalled Jif peanut butter.

In a recall notice posted June 8 on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) website, Prairie City Bakery said it recalled select lots of Prairie City Bakery® Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. 

The product contains Jif peanut butter that was recalled by the J.M. Smucker company last month due to the potential for salmonella contamination, the recall notice says. 

Jif issued the recall May 20, and the FDA website posted a federal and state health authority investigation notice of a salmonella outbreak. 

The recall came amid the multistate outbreak of salmonella senftenberg infections linked to certain Jif peanut butter products produced at the J.M. Smucker Company facility in Lexington, Kentucky. The recall has since prompted a host of other recalls for companies that use Jif peanut butter in their products.

Prairie City Bakery recalls more than 50,000 cakes 

Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Healthy people infected with salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, 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, endocarditis and arthritis, the CDC says.

As of June 8, there had been no illnesses reported in regards to the Prairie City Bakery product. 

The company is not currently facing legal action over the recall, but Top Class Actions follows recalls closely as they sometimes end in class action lawsuits.

This recall affects 50,220 individually wrapped Prairie City Bakery® Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ooey Gooey Butter Cakes sold in 2-oz. packages and in 10-packs of 2-oz. packages. They were sold at gas stations and convenience stores nationwide.

“The recalled product should not be consumed or handled outside of its package,” the recall states. “The product should be disposed of or returned to the place of purchase.” 

The J.M. Smucker Co. recall of select Jif peanut butter products over salmonella contamination concerns has also triggered a number of additional recalls by major companies who received the potentially tainted peanut butter, which can be seen here and here. 

Have you been affected by the Jif peanut butter recall? Let us know in the comments! 

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