Before the foodborne disease outbreak two years ago that spread Salmonella Bredeney infections to 20 states, Portales, NM, could brag about Sunland Inc. being the nation’s largest producer of organic peanut butter. Now in bankruptcy, Sunland was forced in April to sell the plant responsible for those bragging rights for
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Sunland Asking FDA for Permission to Shell Peanuts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under increasing pressure to at least allow the shelling of Valencia peanuts grown during the past season that are now mostly stored in Sunland Inc.’s warehouses. Sunland Inc.’s peanut processing facility in Portales, NM—linked to a 20 state outbreak of Salmonella that
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Letter From The Editor: FDA “Hereby Suspends”
It was one week short of 700 days when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dropped the hammer on the economy of Portales, NM. It was that long between Jan. 11, 2011, the day President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law after it had been
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