Food Lion, Safeway recall items

Food Lion LLC has joined a growing list of supermarket chains clearing shelves of products made with peanut butter that could be tainted by salmonella.

The grocer, with 48 stores in Richmond area, posted a list Monday evening of seven products it pulled containing peanut butter and peanut-butter paste. Among the items are Food Lion Peanut Butter Cookies, Lean Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean Entrée, and Little Debbie Crackers. Peanut butter itself is not on the list of recalled items.

A full list is available at stores or on Food Lion's Web site, http://www.foodlion.com.

Customers who have purchased the items that have been pulled can return them to any Food Lion store for a refund, said Karen Peterson, a Food Lion spokeswoman.

Peterson said the company would continue to monitor the situation and pull any additional items as needed.

Another food retailer, Safeway Inc., also began pulling items made with peanut butter late Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration has traced the salmonella outbreak to a Georgia plant owned by Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America, which makes peanut butter and peanut paste and sells it to institutions and food companies. The outbreak may have contributed to the deaths of six people and sickened more than 470 others in 43 states.

The FDA has created a searchable list of recalled products and brands on the agency's Web site: http://www.fda.gov .

Safeway said some of the products it makes, including Ready Pack Eating Right Kids Apples with Peanut Butter and Orchard Valley Harvest's Organic Bark Peanut Butter Cookies and Cream, may use peanut butter involved in the recall and asked customers to throw them out or return them for a refund.

Clif Bar & Co. recalled some Clif branded bars, including some under Luna and Clif Mojo labels.

Abbott Nutrition makes ZonePerfect Chocolate Peanut Butter bars, ZonePerfect Peanut Toffee bars, and NutriPals Peanut Butter Chocolate nutrition bars. The items are sold in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore.

Staff writer Louis Llovio contributed to this report.