The FDA enters the 21st century with a Flash widget that shows you the latest products recalled due to salmonella-prone peanut butter!

I wasn't going to embed it here, but heck, why not: it's useful information, even if it's in Flash:

The most eye-opening thing? Try searching for "organic" in the widget. Marion Nestle was shocked by another "natural" food name in there:

The recall that I find most surprising comes from the Hain Celestial group, which just called back nearly 900,000 pounds (!) of frozen chicken products because they contain peanut butter produced at the Georgia plant that caused all the problems. Frozen chicken satay? Why is peanut butter in chicken?

And if you locals think we don't live in a national food economy, try searcing the widget for "Braum", as in "Braum's." Yes, our local chain of ice cream and dairy stores has recalled "Premium Peanut Butter Pretzel Ice Cream" because the peanuts or peanut butter in the confection came from the Georgia plant, even though the ice cream is supposedly made about 25 miles from where I'm sitting.

Wouldn't it be nice if the last administration hadn't spent the past eight years removing all the inspection and enforcement around food safety, because it interfered with the magic free market? Ah, memories.