Peanut Butter Woes Spreading

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CDC, Company Representatives Warn the Salmonella Investigation Could Take Time

The effects of salmonella contamination of peanut butter may not be quite as pervasive as those of a contaminated water supply, but it's close.

Image: peanut Butter / Salmonella Typhimurium
The current salmonella outbreak has been reported in at least 43 states and Canada.
(CDC / ABC News Photo Illustration)

Peanut butter reaches so far into the American diet that a single processing plant in Georgia has spread contaminated peanut butter into cafeterias, cakes, cookies, crackers, candies, cereal and ice cream in at least 43 states.

Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the owner of the Georgia plant, Peanut Corporation of America, told ABCNews.com to expect the investigation to continue to unfold for weeks or months to come.

"It's really on two fronts," said a spokesman for Peanut Corporation of America. "One is on the Georgia facility, then everything after the plant: What do those customers do with those products?" he asked.

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