On the heels of a multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, Joseph Frank, a food scientist at the University of Georgia, has been awarded a $499,998 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to study risks associated with Salmonella in dry and ready-to-eat foods, such as peanut butter. The study is one of 17 … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration has released a consumer update, stating that their rapid response helped contain the Salmonella Bredeney outbreak linked to Sunland peanut butter. The product that caused the outbreak was Trader Joe’s Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter made with Sea Salt. The outbreak sickened 41 people in 20 states. Attorney Fred Pritzker, … Read more
Citing its link to a 20-state Salmonella outbreak and its history of food safety violations, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered peanut butter maker Sunland Inc. to suspend operations. The agency suspended the company’s food facility registration, which prohibits it from doing business, today. It was the FDA’s first use of its registration suspension … Read more
Is it a surprise or is it just math? If documents newly made public by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are to be believed, Sunland Inc., the Portales, NM-based peanut butter company at the heart of a Salmonella outbreak and recall of over 250 products, has had unresolved food safety problems including Salmonella and … Read more
Sunland CEO Jimmie Shearer denies the FDA’s claim that the company has knowingly distributed peanut butter that was tainted with Salmonella since 2009. Shearer began a letter posted on the company’s website today saying , “At no time in its twenty four year history has Sunland, Inc. released for distribution any products that it knew to … Read more
Eighteen months before the Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter made at Sunland’s plant in Portales, NM, FDA inspectors found bird poop on raw, unshelled peanuts that had yet to be processed and told the company that storing nuts where birds could fly over and land on them was a health hazard. But, a year … Read more
After it was linked to a Salmonella outbreak, peanut butter maker Sunland Inc. closed the doors of its manufacturing plant in Portales, NM to give everything a good cleaning. Weeks later, the nation’s largest producer of organic peanut butter awaits a go ahead to reopen from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s last … Read more
BT McElrath Chocolatier, Inc. is recalling seasonal peanut butter pave because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was made with ingredients produced by Sunland, Inc. that have been recalled. Sunland’s Trader Joe Valencia peanut butter is linked to a Salmonella Bredeney outbreak in the United States. There have been no confirmed illnesses associated with … Read more
General Mills is recalling several varieties of Cascadian Farm granola bars because they were made with recalled peanuts from Sunland, Inc. Those nuts have been recalled because of possible contamination with Salmonella bacteria. There is a Salmonella Bredeney outbreak linked to Trader Joe’s Valencia peanut butter produced by Sunland, but no illnesses have been linked … Read more
Newman’s Own Organics is recalling peanut butter creme filled chocolate cookies made with recalled Sunland Inc. products for possible Salmonella contamination. There have been no illnesses reported in connection with the consumption of these products. The recalled items include 8 ounce/6 pack Peanut Butter Newman-O’s with Unit UPC number 7 57645 02170 8 and Case … Read more