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• Salmonella Might Be In Second Peanut Plant

  The AP is reporting that samples from a second Texas plant owned by The Peanut Corp. of America have a "presumptive positive" result. What'd they find? Salmonella. This just keeps getting worse. It's not definite yet, but it looks bad. Read on. Read More... Posted Feb 10 2009, 11:26 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: food, news, lawsuit, recall, FDA, recalls, Peter Pan, peanut butter, cookies, Girl Scout cookies, allergies, peanuts, nut allergy, sick kids, pet food, peanut allergy, salmonella, peanut butter recall, Girl Scouts, lunch, nut allergies, cdc, nuts, allergic, peanut allergies, Brett Singer, Jeanne Sager, PB&J, peanut butter and jelly, sandwiches, allergy, Shannon LC Cate, kelloggs, tainted peanut butter, salmonellosis, scare, Keebler's, food scare, tainted food, supereco, peanut butter ban, thin mints, crackers, salmonella scandal, recalled food, nutrition bars, kosher, more salmonella found in texas plant, pb and j, the peanut butter company, peanut butter and cream cheese, gif

• Is It Wrong for Parents to Sell Girl Scout Cookies for their Daughters?

  In this not exactly neighborly modern world of ours, eight-year-olds in Girl Scout vests are much less likely to go door-to-door pedaling Thin Mints and Somoas than they once were. So how do 200 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies still get sold every year? Their parents, of course! Read More... Posted Feb 06 2009, 09:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: ethics, work, safety, Girl Scout cookies, online, Girl Scouts, office, door to door, thin mints, tagalongs, selling girl scout cookies at work, somoas, parents selling girl scout cookies, cookie pushers, girl scout organization

• Whew! Girl Scout Cookies Safe From Peanut Butter Scare

  It's always a big day in our house when we order our boxes of Girl Scout cookies. We don't eat a ton of institutional peanut butter or store-bought cookies in our house, so we hadn't been terribly concerned about the latest salmonella outbreak, but when news came today clearing our beloved Caramel De-Lites (formerly known as Samoas), we all cheered!  More cookie updates -- Kosher, anyone? --  after the jump.  Read More... Posted Jan 26 2009, 01:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: peanut butter, Girl Scout cookies, salmonella, Girl Scouts, thin mints, kosher

• Girl Scouts Suffering From Economic Downturn Too

  If you've been counting the days 'til you could pound a sleeve of Thin Mint-y goodness, you might want to count out some extra pennies.  The Girl Scouts of America have been feeling the credit crunch, and they've compensated with a reduction in cookies. Same $3.50 cost a box - just smaller boxes. Read More... Posted Jan 24 2009, 02:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: money, cookies, Girl Scout cookies, Girl Scouts, economy, Jeanne Sager, sweets, economic downturn, tag-a-longs, thin mints