New Mexico Peanut Capital At Heart Of National Recall

October 19, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

The eastern New Mexico town of Portales is preparing for its 39th annual peanut festival this weekend. But the festivities may be overshadowed by anxiety over the shuttering of a local plant at the heart of a national peanut butter recall.

Officials with Sunland Inc., the nation’s largest USDA certified organic peanut processing plant, say they are scrubbing from top to bottom and hope to get some operations running within a week or two. But it could be two more months before they start making peanut butter again.

The plant makes nut butters for several major retailers. It was shut and more than 200 products recalled after salmonella was found in Trader Joe’s Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter. Thirty-five illnesses in 19 states have been linked to the product.

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Calif. Plant Recalls Its Peanut Butter Ice Cream

October 12, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticle1 Comments

Clemmy’s Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling all of its Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip because the peanut butter in it might contain salmonella.

The pints involved have the UPC symbol 8 94509 00231 9 and expiration dates ranging from February 2013 to August 2014.

The peanut butter in the ice cream came from Sunland, Inc., a New Mexico peanut butter manufacturing plant.

No illnesses have been traced to Clemmy’s ice cream, but at least 35 salmonella illnesses in 19 states have been traced to Trader Joe’s peanut butter, which came from the Sunland plant.

Clemmy’s is located in Rancho Mirage, Calif, southeast of Palm Springs, and makes sugar, lactose and gluten-free ice cream. No other flavors are involved.

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