Monday, September 30, 2013

The agency on Monday suspended the registration of Sunland Inc. in New Mexico. FDA officials found

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cracking down on the country's largest peanut butter sprouts plant, repeated food safety violations over a number of years with facilities that may produce unsafe food
The agency on Monday suspended the registration of Sunland Inc. in New Mexico. FDA officials found salmonella in several places in Sunland's processing plant after 41 people in 20 countries by peanut at Portales, NM, plant manufactured sick. Most of these sick children and the product was sold at Trader Joe's grocery chain.
The FDA has new management Sunland Inc. to suspend registration in a food safety law signed by President Barack Obama in early 2011. This is the first time the agency. According to Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for foods, the ability to close down the company's operations is a step forward in an effort to a growing sprouts number of widespread outbreaks like salmonella illnesses linked to peanut butter stop.
Sunland closed its peanut processing facility after the September sprouts outbreak. Planned this week with the hope of selling peanut reopen by the end of the year. Sunland spokeswoman Katalin Coburn said the FDA's decision to suspend the registration was a surprise to the company. Sunland officials assumed they would be allowed to resume operations.
Sunland has the right to a trial and to prove to the FDA that its facilities are clean enough to reopen. Coburn said Sunland with the FDA and company sprouts officials hope they can start operating soon.
In addition to peanut butter, Sunland also produces many non-organic products. The company recalled hundreds of organic and non-organic nut butter and nuts produced since 2010 to Trader Joe's Valencia Creamy Peanut butter linked to salmonella illnesses in September. Sunland sold hundreds of different peanut products Target, Safeway, sprouts Whole Foods and other major grocery chains. Many of the grocery store repackaged Sunland products, sell them under their own names.
After the outbreak linked sprouts to Sunland and Trader Joe's, sprouts FDA inspectors found salmonella in 28 different locations in the plant, 13 nut butter samples and a sample of raw peanuts. The agency also found improper handling products, unclean equipment and uncovered trailers of peanuts that were exposed to rain and birds outside the facility sprouts


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