A salmonella outbreak that has sickened over 400 people in 42 states (no deaths) has been traced to an industrial-sized tub of peanut butter, and, once again, it's the Minnesota Department of Health notching another solved outbreak in its belt. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

Officials from the state Department of Health said late Friday that the salmonella bacteria found in 30 Minnesotans believe to have been sickened by eating King Nut brand creamy peanut butter has the same genetic fingerprint as the salmonella bacteria found in 400 sick people in 42 states.

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Kirk Smith [pictured here] , supervisor of food-borne diseases at the state Department of Health, said the clue in this outbreak was that many of the Minnesotans who became ill had eaten in institutional settings. That included nursing homes, schools and colleges, he said.

Specifically, they were eating peanut butter from the wittily named King Nut which distributes peanut butter for the much less wittily named Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), whose presser, at their website, is already laying down the company's legal defense:

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