CFIA adds more snack food items to recall list

TORONTO -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency added another 50 snack food items over the weekend to its list of products recalled because of the salmonella outbreak from tainted peanut products in the U.S.

That brings the total to 86 items on the agency's list -- 38 of them made in Canada, 48 manufactured in the U.S.

The latest recalled items include snack bars, bridge mix, kettle corn and cookies from a variety of companies including Atkins, Arico, Clif Bar & Company and Nature's Path, with a variety of UPC codes and best-before dates.

The list can be found at the CFIA website.

The agency says the foods contain either peanut butter or paste or whole, crushed or powered peanuts that have been recalled in the U.S. and Canada by Peanut Corp. of America due to salmonella contamination.

The expanded list comes as more products are identified that used peanut products that originated from a Georgia plant that has been identified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the source of the salmonella outbreak.

At least 529 people in the U.S. have been sickened and at least eight may have died because of the outbreak which has led to the recall of more than 430 products across the United States.

No illnesses in Canada have been reported but a Canadian did become ill after consuming a product bought in the U.S. while travelling there.