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# Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter Recalled
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/creamy_salted_valencia_peanut_butter_0923121000/
- Published: 2012-09-23T22:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:23:32.000Z
- Description: Trader Joe's is voluntarily recalling its Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter nationwide over potential Salmonella contamination and has already pulled it from shelves. The company says no illnesses have been confirmed as linked to the product.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Alerts, Shopping, #vivvo-import

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### Trader Joe’s Voluntarily Recalls Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter Because of Possible Health Risk

**Contact**Consumer:  
(626) 599-3817

Media:  
Alison Mochizuki   
(626) 599-3779

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** \- September 22, 2012 - Out of the utmost caution and care for our customers, Trader Joe’s is voluntarily recalling its Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter because of potential contamination with *Salmonella*. At this time, no confirmed illnesses directly linked to this product have been reported to Trader Joe’s. 

While we have no confirmed information that suggests this peanut butter is unsafe to eat, there is nothing more important to us than the health and safety of our customers and crew, and the quality of our products. 

In advance of this recall, Trader Joe’s removed the product from all store shelves. 

The recalled Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter was distributed to Trader Joe’s stores nationwide. The product comes in a 16 ounce, plastic jar with an expiration date of stamped below the lid. All code dates are included in this recall. 

Production and distribution of the item has been suspended while the FDA and the Valencia Peanut Butter supplier continue their investigations. 

Customers who have purchased this item are urged to not eat the product, and to dispose of it or return it to any Trader Joe’s for a full refund. Customers with questions may contact Trader Joe’s Customer Relations at (626) 599-3817\. 

*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. Healthy persons infected with *Salmonella* often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), 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 (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.

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