Sara Lee has voluntarily recalled its Chef Pierre Chocolate Peanut Butter Silk Pie due to possible contamination with salmonella.
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The US food group has recalled the foodservice product as a “precautionary measure”, the company said today (3 February), due to it containing peanut pieces subject to the expanded recall of products produced by Peanut Corporation of America’s (PCA) at its Blakely plant.
The product has a UPC code 3210005095, an individual package weight of 34oz and is sold frozen in packs of four.
The company said the affected product carries a Julian code: 7103, 7201, 7242, 7331, 8018, 8133, 8199, 8256, and 8305.
No other Sara Lee products are understood to be involved in the recall and the company is urging anyone with the product to return it to the store for a refund.
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By GlobalDataAccording to figures released yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 550 people in 43 US states have been infected with the outbreak strain of salmonella. Eight deaths have also been linked to the outbreak, while one person has also been taken ill in Canada.
A report from the US Food and Drug Administration has claimed that PCA found salmonella contamination at its Blakely plant on 12 occasions – but had the products retested and shipped out to market.
For its part, PCA has claimed that it does “not agree with all the observations noted” in the FDA report, claiming that it contains “some inaccuracies”.
PCA has also “categorically” denied a claim that it sought favourable results from any lab in a bid to get clearance to ship its products.
“PCA uses only two highly reputable labs for product testing and they are widely used by the industry and employ good laboratory practices,” the company said last week.
