The Food and Drug Administration suspended Sunland Inc.'s registration as a food facility on Monday, two months after issuing a recall on 240 products containing Sunland's organic peanut butter, which has sickened at least 41 people with salmonella. The move surprised many observers because it was the FDA's first use of a new power granted by the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011. But it was even more shocking to the people who work at the Portales, N.M.-based company, because they say they weren't given any advance notice that the suspension was coming. Indeed, the FDA hadn't contacted Sunland for weeks before Monday, according to Sunland spokeswoman Katalin Coburn, Coburn told The...
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