GNC joins other brands in peanut butter recall due to salmonella outbreak

PITTSBURGH General Nutrition Centers on Thursday announced a precautionary, voluntary recall of certain lots of its GNC Triflex Peanut Butter Soft Chews product sold in 60 count containers (UPC 048107036942, lot numbers ending in 8275 and 8255) in response to the widening recall involving peanut butter and peanut paste ingredients manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America.

PCA is the focus of a current investigation by the Food and Drug Administration concerning possible salmonella contamination in its peanut butter. PCA was a peanut butter ingredient supplier to Primrose Candy Company, the company that manufactures this product for GNC.

No other GNC brand products have been impacted by the PCA recall.

The product has not been linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak, and there have been no reported cases of the salmonella illness associated with this product. Primrose Candy Company tests every lot of finished GNC Triflex Peanut Butter Soft Chews for salmonella and no salmonella contamination has been detected.