More people in Colorado have been sickened by tainted peanut butter.
The Oregonian newspaper in Portland reports that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has linked six new cases to a plant in Plainview, Texas. The Colorado victims were between the ages of 2 and 60. One had to be hospitalized, the newspaper reported.
The peanut butter came from Lakewood-based Vitamin Cottage. The natural foods chain recalled its Vitamin Cottage fresh-ground peanut butter last week.
Officials with the state Department of Public Health and Environment or Vitamin Cottage could not immediately be reached for comment Saturday evening.
The peanut butter came from a plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America. Authorities say that plant had operated since 2005 without an inspection.
