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Hershey Co (HSY.N), maker of Reese's peanut butter cups candy, reiterated on Thursday that it does not buy peanut butter or other products from a company at the center of a major salmonella outbreak.

A South Georgia peanut processing plant linked to a national outbreak of salmonella had tested its products and found they contained the bacteria, yet still sold the products after retests were negative, federal food and drug officials said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

The number of deaths related to the US outbreak of salmonella has risen to seven with the death of a Minnesota woman in her 80s.

The sole source of the US salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America's Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.

From the Girl Scouts to Kraft Foods, a growing list of agencies and firms are rushing to assure consumers their products are safe from a widespread salmonella scare.

General Mills Inc. and grocers Kroger Co., Safeway Inc. and Meijer Inc. have joined the list of companies pulling items with peanut butter amid a nationwide salmonella outbreak.

U.S. food companies recalled more products containing peanut butter as the U.S. government continued its investigation into an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning that have may have contributed to six deaths.

Federal health authorities urged consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until authorities can learn more about a deadly outbreak of salmonella contamination.

Just days after asking stores to stop selling some of its peanut butter crackers, food maker Kellogg Co. is recalling more than a dozen varieties of its cookies and crackers in the wake of a deadly salmonella outbreak.