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Costco dumps 1 million jars of peanut butter in New Mexico
Topic Started: Mar 28 2014, 08:16 PM (142 Views)
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Wasted: Some of the millions of jars of 'perfectly safe' peanut butter are dumped at a New Mexico landfill after Costco insisted it was destroyed

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Dumped: Almost a million jars of peanut butter are being trucked to a New Mexico landfill after Costco refused to either accept them or allow them to be donated to food banks

Nearly a million jars of peanut butter are being dumped at a New Mexico landfill to expedite the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide recall.

Bankruptcy trustee Clarke Coll said he had no other choice after Costco Wholesale refused to take shipment of the Sunland Inc. product and declined requests to let it be donated to food banks or repackaged or sold to brokers who provide food to institutions like prisons.

'We considered all options,' Coll said. 'They didn't agree.'

Costco officials did not return telephone calls seeking comment. But court filings indicate the product was made with $2.8 million worth of Valencia peanuts owned by Costco and had been sitting in the warehouse since the company shut down and filed for bankruptcy last fall.

After extensive testing, Costco agreed to a court order authorizing the trustee to sell it the peanut butter. But after getting eight loads, Costco rejected it as 'not merchantable' because of leaky peanut oil.

Coll said 'all parties agreed there's nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue,' but court records show that on a March 19 conference call Costco said 'it would not agree to any disposition ... other than destruction.'

So instead of selling or donating the peanut butter, with a value estimated at $2.6 million, the estate is paying about $60,000 to haul the 950,000 jars of nut butter — or about 25 tons — to the Curry County landfill in Clovis, where public works director Clint Bunch says it 'will go in with our regular waste and covered with dirt.'

The last of 58 truckloads was expected Friday, he said.

Sunland made peanut butter under a number of different labels for retailers like Costco, Kroger and Trader Joe's, along with products under its own name. But the plant was shut down in September 2012 after its products were linked to 41 salmonella cases in 20 states.

It later reopened for about five months, but shut down last October after the company's Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing.

Sunland processed Valencia peanuts, a sweet variety of peanut that is unique to the region and preferred for natural butters because it is flavorful without additives.

Sonya Warwick, spokeswoman for New Mexico's largest food bank, declined to comment directly on the situation, but she noted that rescued food accounted for 74 percent of what Roadrunner Food Bank distributed across New Mexico last year.

'Our fleet picks up rescued food from hundreds of locations weekly and brings it back to the food bank,' she said. 'Before distributing it, volunteers help label, sort or repack it for distribution to partner agencies across the state.

'Access to rescued food allows us to provide a more well-rounded and balanced meal to New Mexicans experiencing hunger.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591338/Million-jars-peanut-butter-dumped-New-Mexico.html
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I'd do the same.




Fuck Sunland
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Erna
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We love peanut butter but we love Penis butter even more!
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I can see Costco's stand on this. With the manufacturer's history, even if there was only 1 jar of PB that might have been infected they can't take the chance with any of it. One person dying from eating a bad jar of their peanut butter could cost them far more than the value of all that peanut butter.
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Sunland was shut down for 5 months and I'm sure underwent extensive cleaning before reopening.

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Coll said 'all parties agreed there's nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue,' but court records show that on a March 19 conference call Costco said 'it would not agree to any disposition ... other than destruction.'


How much of a tax write off did Costco get.

Is there a problem with Costco's green tea?

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We Not They Finally
March 29, 2014 at 12:46 am Log in to Reply
We go to Costco in Albuquerque. We told the management there that we were appalled to see Japanese green tea being sold there (and on special sale! come and get it!) It was under Costco's own label, Kirkland, but there were Japanese characters right on the boxes so it had to be from Japan. They made a note of the complaint, though who knows if they can stop any orders.

So long as this stuff is let in to the U.S. in the first place, it's buyer beware. We like Costco because they have decent labor practices. But apparently, that doesn't protect the food supply!


That's from a poster at enenews.com

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Kirkland Signature Ito En Matcha Blend (Green Tea), 100% Japanese Green Tea Leaves, 100 Tea Bags

http://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Matcha-Japanese-Leaves/dp/B000WB1YSE

Green tea from Japan?....really

Here is another interesting site.

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/code/applications/documents/A1069_%20AppR%20_SD11.pdf
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
Mar 29 2014, 05:09 AM
We love peanut butter but we love Penis butter even more!
That made me laugh. I knew a Master once who would put peanut butter or molasses all over his crotch and taint and you had two minutes to clean it off completely using no hands, just your mouth or the punishment started. Its not as easy as it sounds.
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One of our ex-husbands once forced a slave to wash his kitchen floor, nude, with a toothbrush.

He was always asking if he could tie us up, and we always said no

This ex-husband is a somewhat well-known Hollywood film maker and a Google search would turn up pages of info, videos, and photos.

But we won't tell!
Edited by Erna, Apr 1 2014, 03:56 AM.
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That makes sense, since all your comments about your relationships are about the misery of not being in control.
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I think I see Gabourey Sidibe hiding in the background.
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