So now would apparently be a good time to give up peanut butter. Several brands of peanut butter crackers and cookies, as well as institutional packages of peanut butter (sold to cafeterias, nursing homes and the like), are reported to be harboring salmonella and making people who eat them sick. Personally, I can live without peanut butter.
Still, it's scary to have to worry all the time about what might be next to be tagged as contaminated with salmonella. Used to only be dairy and chicken. Then it was salads and produce. Last summer, it was tomatoes (false alarm) and now it's apparently peanut butter.
It would appear our once-safe food supply chain is no longer so secure.