In another example of, know thy suppliers, whether it’s around the corner or around the globe, Kellogg’s has announced its peanut butter cracker thingies – which are sorta gross — are on hold, including all Keebler and Austin brand crackers, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced that 453 are sick and at least five, possibly six are dead from Salmonella in peanut butter.

Yesterday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it notified anywhere from 30-85 companies that bought peanut butter or peanut paste from a Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) processing facility in Blakely, Georgia to test their products.

Stephen Sundlof, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety center, said,

“This is a very active investigation, but we don’t yet have the data to provide consumers with specifics about what brands or products they should avoid.”

Laboratory tests by the Georgia Department of Agriculture have confirmed Salmonella contamination in some peanut butter manufactured by the PCA plant in Blakey, as have tests by health officials in Connecticut.

Connecticut’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said,

“This is the first unopened tub of King Nut peanut butter found in the country that is definitively identified as being tainted with salmonella. My office just received the results from the Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory confirming the presence of Salmonella Type B in an unopened tub.  This provides further evidence that some lots of King Nut brand peanut butter delivered to food service accounts are responsible for a recent outbreak of salmonella infections in consumers.”