April 2014
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A North Carolina company is hoping to buy an eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant that went bankrupt after a salmonella outbreak shuttered its operations and prompted a nationwide recall. Click here for more details.
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Nearly a million jars of peanut butter are being dumped at a New Mexico landfill to expedite the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide recall. Click here for more details.
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The International Peanut Genome Initiative—a group of multinational crop geneticists who have been working in tandem for the last several years—has successfully sequenced the peanut’s genome. Click here for more details.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday recalled some variants of Lily’s Peanut Butter found to be containing excessive amounts of aflatoxin, a species of fungi. Click here for more details.
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Birdsong Corporation, a Virginia-based company that processes peanuts for marketing and distribution worldwide, will locate a $47.3 million facility in Darlington County that is expected to create 55 new jobs over a five-year period. Click here for more details.
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