Man sues maker of tainted peanut butter
Charles Stafford is a self-acknowledged peanut butter addict, a "serious" eater of the Peter Pan brand in particular, who grew up in a poor home where "if you didn't like peanut butter, you starved." But Stafford's lifelong love of the spread was tested recently when he became infected with salmonella during a nationwide outbreak linked to the Peter Pan and Great Value brands of peanut butter, he said. Stafford bought the contaminated Peter Pan in January, ate the peanut butter every day and soon became ill, experiencing nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, the lawsuit said. His physician diagnosed him with a likely case of salmonella poisoning, according to the suit. He missed several days of work. As of Wednesday, 329 people infected with the outbreak strain had been reported to the CDC. They reside in 41 states. No deaths have been attributed to the infection.
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