February 18, 2009

my clif bar was recalled


I ate a crunchy peanut butter clif bar at the top of black mountain on Sunday. This was a bar that had been in my pack since at least January 1st and I failed to give it ANY thought before I inhaled it to fuel myself for the rest of the hike. Because it was OLDER, even when I realized I had eaten a PB bar, I figured it was fine and I would be fine. BUT, tonight I sat down and clicked on the food politics site to see if there was any news on the Peanut Corp. and low and behold saw that the very bar I ate was on the recalled list. WITHIN the date range of voluntarily recalled product. The hypochondriac reaction was to instantly feel ill. The incubation period is up to 72 hours (which was 4:00pm today). Of course I read all of the extraordinary issues one can have in addition to regular intestinal difficulties. Now I am wondering if there is salmonella hiding in my intestine, NOT making me ill but managing to pass to my bloodstream where it will cause nervous system infection. Why doesn't it comfort me to know that the recalled product tested by the Clif bar company has not tested positive for the bacteria? I need some antibiotics.... or some xanax....

3 comments:

Cedar ... said...

Corin,...breathe deeply,... breathe,... now relax. Of course I do the same thing about other issues,... someone once told me I was "awful-izing" in my thoughts. I had to agree that I did that. I hope you will be fine, Clif bar says no positive test so believe the best for it.

Allison said...

Idea - lets expand the garden this year, make it bigger. Living off the land a little more would be the best thing for us! - not that it would help us in the peanut butter department! I think I'm pretty much done with that. (i am really going to miss peanut butter cups)

Jennifer W said...

I'm shocked, frankly. I assumed that Clif didn't buy that gross peanut paste.