Tuesday, November 24, 2009 East Central Illinois

Pantries patrol their stockpiles for recalled food items

By Julie Wurth
Saturday, February 7, 2009 7:00 AM CDT

URBANA – The mounting list of recalled foods from a contaminated peanut plant in Georgia has complicated life for the Eastern Illinois Foodbank.

Almost every evening, program director Andrea Rundell stays an hour or two after work to check her list of e-mail alerts from the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, just to ensure the emergency food supply is safe.

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