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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
FDA HAS POWER TO SHUT DOWN FOOD FACTORIES
The Food and Drug Administration has for the first time used its new power to shut down food factories. It ordered the suspension of operations at a New Mexico peanut butter plant thought to be a source of salmonella poisoning. Before a new law was enacted in 2011, the FDA had to go to court to get an order to close a plant. The company which operates the plant, Sunland, must prove to FDA inspectors that the factory is clean enough to start up again. Sunland is the country's biggest processor of organic peanuts.
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If it's true people are getting sick from these plants, close them down.
11:00 am, you miss the point. A perfectly viable company who realizes its own errors and takes recall steps and safely recalls their own products has the right to stay in business with their other products to make money to cover the costs of the recalled product and keep the company alive. To allow another entity to deny them this right without due process and proof that their other products are deficient is a crime against that company. Sorry, but the gubmint has overstepped boundaries here.
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