First Nestle, now Dunkin’ Donuts – is there no safe guilty pleasure left? The Boston Channel reported today that Dunkin’ Donuts has temporarily stopped serving its Dunkaccinos and hot chocolate, due to the possibility of Salmonella contamination from Salmonella-tainted equipment used by its supplier, Plainview Milk Products Cooperative. Dunkin’ Donuts claims that they have confirmation that none of their products have been contaminated, but they’re withdrawing the drinks just in case, probably until the end of the week.
We reported yesterday on our sister blog NBAFoodAdvocate that Plainview Milk Products recalled several products manufactured over the last two years because of the discovery of Salmonella contamination both within product and on food-processing equipment (see Salmonella Recall: Plainview Milk Products… for details).
Let’s give one point to Dunkin’ Donuts for speedily taking potentially Salmonella-contaminated beverages out of reach of consumers’ innocent hands. However, to be thorough, perhaps we should mark up a point against Dunkin’ for sourcing supplies from a company that can’t say with confidence that its past two years of product are Salmonella-free.
