You have to question the wisdom of furloughing employees of California's Department of Public Health during the ongoing four-alarm salmonella outbreak. Yet the staffers were among the thousands who were forced to skip work on Friday.
At least schools and other foodservice facilities could look for assistance on the department's website.
The Division of Workers' Compensation, another agency known to many California restaurateurs, was also shut for the day.
Governor Schwarzenegger ordered the two-days-a-month furloughs as a way of contending with the state's gaping financial deficit. The next furlough day is set for the second Friday from now.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Caribou Coffee joins the parade of peanut recallers
Caribou Coffee has become what appears to be the first restaurant chain to recall a product because it may contain peanuts contaminated with salmonella.
The Food and Drug Administration disclosed the recall of Caribou Fruit & Nut Blend Trail Mix this afternoon via Twitter. The announcement explains that Caribou, the (distant) Number Two coffee chain behind Starbucks, was informed the peanuts in the mix were supplied by Peanut Corp. of America, the Georgia processor implicated as the source of the two-months-long-and-counting salmonella outbreak. No one has reported being sickened by the product, which Caribou was selling in three-ounce, sealed cellophane packets, the announcement noted.
It also noted that the mix, supplied ready-to-sell by Marra Brothers/Marich Confectionary, was still being distributed as of last Friday.
Starbucks had earlier pulled some of its peanut-containing products, but had not issued a recall. The items were merely taken off store shelves or no longer sold.
More than 500 people have been sickened by salmonella that was traced back to Peanut Corp.
The Food and Drug Administration disclosed the recall of Caribou Fruit & Nut Blend Trail Mix this afternoon via Twitter. The announcement explains that Caribou, the (distant) Number Two coffee chain behind Starbucks, was informed the peanuts in the mix were supplied by Peanut Corp. of America, the Georgia processor implicated as the source of the two-months-long-and-counting salmonella outbreak. No one has reported being sickened by the product, which Caribou was selling in three-ounce, sealed cellophane packets, the announcement noted.
It also noted that the mix, supplied ready-to-sell by Marra Brothers/Marich Confectionary, was still being distributed as of last Friday.
Starbucks had earlier pulled some of its peanut-containing products, but had not issued a recall. The items were merely taken off store shelves or no longer sold.
More than 500 people have been sickened by salmonella that was traced back to Peanut Corp.
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