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(Updates with Hy-Vee recall, paragraphs 3, 9-10) Stocks Regulatory News WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities toldconsumers on Saturday to avoid eating products that containpeanut butter until they can determine the scope of an outbreakof salmonella food poisoning that may have contributed to sixdeaths. "We urge consumers to postpone eating any products that maycontain peanut butter until additional information becomesavailable," Dr. Stephen Sundlof of the Food and DrugAdministration's Center for Food Safety said in ateleconference with reporters. Also on Saturday, the FDA said Hy-Vee Inc was voluntarilyrecalling bakery products distributed in seven states becausethey contained peanut butter that could be contaminated withsalmonella. As of Friday night, 474 people had been reported infectedby a salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter by publichealth authorities in 43 of the 50 U.S states, the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention said.

Twenty-three percent of the known cases had resulted inhospitalizations and the infections may have contributed to sixdeaths, said Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the Centers'division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. The very young, elderly and immuno-compromised were themost severely affected, he said in the teleconference. The company at the center of the case, Peanut Corporationof America, said it had been informed by the Food and DrugAdministration that some samples of its products had testedpositive for a salmonella strain that may have originated in aBlakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant. The recalled peanut butter was sold in bulk packaging incontainers ranging in size from 5 pounds (2.3 kg) to 1,700pounds (771 kg) and the peanut paste was sold in sizes rangingfrom 35-pound (16-kg) containers to tanker containers. None ofthe peanut butter or peanut paste being recalled is soldthrough retail stores, PCA said. The items being recalled by Hy-Vee include Peanut ButterCookies, Monster Cookies and Peanut Butter Reese's PiecesCookies and were sold in all Hy-Vee stores in Iowa, Illinois,Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota, the FDAsaid in a news release.

"All items should be destroyed or returned to Hy-Vee for afull refund," it said. Kellogg Co (K.N) said late on Friday it was recallingcertain products that "have the potential to be contaminated,"including some Austin and Keebler branded peanut butter snacksand some Famous Amos and Keebler Soft Batch cookies. (Reporting by Jim Wolf; Additional reporting by Maggie Fox;Editing by Xavier Briand) Stocks Regulatory News. KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko left Kiev on Saturday for Moscow, where she will hold talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on solving a row which has cut gas supplies to part of Europe, the press service of the Ukrainian government said. World RussiaConfirmation of the Ukrainian premier's departure was significant because diplomats believe Tymoshenko is unlikely to travel to Russia without a strong prospect of achieving results in the gas row.The Ukrainian government's website also said that Tymoshenko would meet Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Michael Stott) World Russia. MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The prime ministers of Russia andUkraine have reached an outline deal in their gas dispute whichshould allow supplies to be resumed to Europe soon, a Russiangovernment spokesman said early on Sunday. Russia Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin agreed with hisUkrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko that Ukraine would startpaying European prices for its gas, less a 20 percent discountthis year, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said by telephone.