FDA uses FSMA to remove facility registration
For the first time ever, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used its registration suspension authority, under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), to suspended the food facility registration of Sunland Inc. after peanut butter made by the company has been linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Bredeney.
This new authority enables the agency to take this action when food manufactured, processed, packed, received, or held by a facility has a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals, and other conditions are met.
Sunland’s peanut butter has been linked to a Salmonella Bredeney outbreak that has sickened 41 people in 20 states. FDA added that the company’s history of violations also played into its decision to suspend the company’s registration.
