Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company responsible for the contaminated peanut butter and peanut paste that has sickened hundreds and may be responsible for nine deaths, as a result of salmonella, has filed for bankruptcy.

Stewart Parnell, owner of the Peanut Corp. of America company at the heart of the salmonella outbreak and peanut butter product recall in the U.S., testified before Congress on Wednesday. Sort of.

In an interview with Matt Lauer the President Barack Obama expressed his disturbance about FDA's failures on how the agency missed the salmonella-linked peanut products that reached to the US consumers and said he will order full review of FDA operations.

Never one to stay out of a sticky situation, the U.S. Army has joined the parade of those in the peanut butter recall, removing some peanut butter items from warehouses in Europe.

A report made public by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday indicates that the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), whose product is responsible for the recent nation-wide salmonella scare, may have knowingly shipped tainted goods.

The peanut butter recall has just gotten worse, without Peanut Corporation of America, the manufacturer at the center of the outbreak, doing a thing. The FDA, however, has expanded the recall of the company's products all the way back to 2007.

ALDI, short for "ALbrecht DIscount," has its Cambridge cheese crackers with peanut butter and Grandessa peanut butter cookies as a precautionary measure against salmonella.

Much as with the pet food incident of 2007, when tainted products from China were killing our beloved companions, the peanut butter recall of 2009 has reached pet food.

It's this year's e. coli scare, and it's not getting any better, but rather, it's getting worse. It now seems to have a name, the peanut butter recall of 2009.

It appears a voluntary recall of Kellogg's peanut butter crackers is not enough, nor is the recall of 21 lots of peanut butter over possible salmonella contamination. The FDA has now told consumers to avoid all foods containing peanut butter, for now.