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The peanut butter with salmonella that caused the outbreak was manufactured at a plant in Georgia owned by the Peanut Corporation of America . The products that were the source of the peanut butter salmonella — a deadly form of food poisoning — are peanuts and King Nut peanut butter , which were shipped to hundreds of thousands of food-product manufacturers and end-users through private and government channels, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
For example, the USDA distributes food products (including peanut butter-containing products) to schools all over the United States . Hundreds of private corporations have recalled peanut butter products from the Georgia plant or another plant in Texas owned by the Peanut Corporation of America ; these companies include:
Adults or children who contract a salmonella infection from contaminated food usually develop some or all of these symptoms within 12 to 72 hours after eating the food product:
Symptoms of salmonella poisoning generally last four to seven days. The diarrhea can be extremely dehydrating, and life-threatening complications can develop if the salmonella infection spreads beyond the intestines.
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