Costco Pepper

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Costco Pepper
Topic Started: Aug 3 2014, 01:39 PM (308 Views)
Darcie	Aug 3 2014, 01:39 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	CHECK YOUR CABINETS: Costco is warning customers not to use black pepper sold in its stores because it may be contaminated with salmonella. SHARE this to let your friends know about the warning See the details here ---> http://bit.ly/ShLkMu Got this on Facebook



heatseeker	Aug 3 2014, 02:03 PM Post #2
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	I rarely use black pepper these day. If heat is required hot sauce does the trick. Cooking turns black pepper bitter.



Durgan	Aug 3 2014, 03:34 PM Post #3
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	I use to consider black pepper absolutely immune to all contamination.In other words completely safe. An illusion destroyed. Black pepper is about the only spice I use besides a bit of soy sauce.



goldengal	Aug 4 2014, 01:22 AM Post #4
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	With the wonder of technology, customers who purchased this pepper should receive automated calls from Costco. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/06/coscto-warns-of-black-pepper-possibly-contaminated-with-salmonella/#.U94ovmNAL8g A couple of years ago, there was a recall on a specific Kirkland dog food, and customers who had purchased same received these automated calls. Take care, Pat



Trotsky	Aug 4 2014, 01:29 AM Post #5
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I have only ever bought my black pepper as peppercorns at the DOLLAR STORE. I use it in quantity in one dish: Pasta Carbonara...very sparingly on eggs. One must think quantitatively. A few salmonella organisms on a few grains of black pepper are unlikely to cause much of an infection so a sprinkle of pepper is not the same kind of a problem as an infected chicken...and salmonella is a chicken SCOURGE... or a salad bar full of fecal material. (I'm surprised salmonella could actually survive in the bone dry environment of a black peppercorn.) Edited by Trotsky, Aug 4 2014, 01:34 AM.



angora	Aug 4 2014, 01:47 AM Post #6
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	goldengal Aug 4 2014, 01:22 AM With the wonder of technology, customers who purchased this pepper should receive automated calls from Costco. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/06/coscto-warns-of-black-pepper-possibly-contaminated-with-salmonella/#.U94ovmNAL8g A couple of years ago, there was a recall on a specific Kirkland dog food, and customers who had purchased same received these automated calls. Take care, Pat That's kind of a wake up call, Pat. As soon as I realize I have an automated call, I hang up. If business starts using these calls for the purposes of telling us something actually useful, I'm screwed. I wonder if it is now or will become widespread.



goldengal	Aug 4 2014, 02:15 AM Post #7
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	I think Angora their system picks up all the people who purchased an affected product within the time frame. Take care, Pat



FuzzyO	Aug 4 2014, 02:17 AM Post #8
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	If you have call display Angora you can just let that sort of call go to message.



Olive Oil	Aug 4 2014, 03:47 AM Post #9
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	I too, am amazed anything could survive on a peppercorn. I use a lot of pepper and hot sauce. Sometimes a sprinkle of pepper is just what keeps a dish from being bland. I use ground cayenne pepper in a lot of soups, sauces, etc. to give it another layer of heat.



Darcie	Aug 6 2014, 02:52 PM Post #10
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	When in doubt I refrigerate it or freeze it. My bag of coarse pepper is in the freezer, difficult to find here in London, I purchase it in an Indian spice shop in Montreal. I have many pepper grinders, from inexpensive to $32. The expensive one died in less than a year. I use a lot of hot pepper sauce and a lot of cayenne pepper flakes also



helen_t	Aug 6 2014, 05:01 PM Post #11
Red Star Member Posts: 2,767 Group: Member Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2010	I'm surprised I didn't get an email from the government about this - any recalls come from them = example: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2014-08-01-r9133/eng/1407263898262/1407263899387



Olive Oil	Aug 7 2014, 11:02 AM Post #12
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	How scary . Those Mary's crackers could kill my daughter.



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