I believe it was salmonella of all things. It was a contamination I believe from the packagers or something like that. Therefore, they weren't sure of how wide spread it really was...it did make a bunch of souls very ill, however, don't know if anyone died or not. In any case, Trader Joes was among the list forced to pull the almonds off their shelves. Don't think the new harvest has happened yet since then. You may try another chain of stores or perhaps some health stores and ask if they can get some in. I'm in northern Arizona, and we're still getting raw almonds here in bulk.

becks

I got some raw almonds at Trader Joe's in San Francisco about a week ago. Might want to ask the people at yours about ordering 'em. Good luck.
Gardeninginthefog

During recall period, I did not return any almonds I had from Trader Joes. After my supply ran out, I was able to keep buying raw almonds at a local Indian food store. They never stopped selling. Their almonds were in cleal plastic packaging without labels. Such local ethnic stores often buy bulk items overseas and repackage for retail. I doubt if their almonds are pastuerized since they shipped throughout the recall period. Almonds do not naturally have bacteria problems. This is a result of sloppy packaging practices. You may want to try some of these ethnic grocers.

An alternative source of raw almonds is to buy shelled almonds. These are more of a pain for heavy almond eaters like me, but are obviously not processed. Since they have not bene removed fromtheir shells, they cann't be contaminated by sloppy handling(other then by the end user)

Another alternative is "nutsonline.com". I think their nuts are still raw. I have bought spices from them but not nuts before since I can gets nuts local.

I've been wondering why no more raw almonds at Trader Joe's and was told yesterday by a TJ employee that they carry "a lot of bacteria" . I decided to investigate and this is what I found.
Check it out. I have yet to try the pasteurized ones, assuming that they would taste different.
http://www.about-salmonella.com/articles/paramount/paramount9.htm