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By MICHAEL R. SHEA
BEE STAFF WRITER

Last Updated: February 21, 2007, 04:36:23 AM PST

TURLOCK — Peanut butter and crackers was 7-year-old Sean Reid's favorite after-school snack, but now his parents suspect that salmonella in a jar of Great Value peanut butter kept him sick at home for more than a week.

ConAgra Foods, the manufacturer behind such household brands as Hunt's, Healthy Choice, Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim, announced last Wednesday that it would recall all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter made at its Sylvester, Ga., plant. Federal officials have linked the peanut butter to an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide since August. No deaths have been reported.

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