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"A New Mexico peanut plant is at the center of a massive, nationwide recall after 35 people in 19 states got sick.Sunland, Inc. has been in Portales for the last 24 years and never before had to recall a product. But recently, federal food safety officials found salmonella in a jar of peanut butter that came from Sunland.Outside the Sunland plant on Thursday, you can see huge truckloads of peanuts pulling into the factory. This is peanut harvesting season. Sunland buys its peanuts from dozens of local farmers in a 200 mile radius of Portales. And while the peanuts are getting delivered, they are waiting in storage for the facility to reopen.About 150 workers are employed at Sunland. Instead of roasting peanuts and making peanut butter, they are now intensely scrubbing the entire plant, taking the equipment apart and cleaning it down to the nuts and bolts. While the company is taking a financial hit, officials say no one is losing their jobs at this point.\u201CWe are most certain to do everything to make sure that Sunland remains an important part of Portales and the greater community,\u201D explains Katalin Coburn, Sunland.To give you a sense of how important the peanut industry is to Portales, this weekend the community will get together for its 39th annual Peanut Valley Festival to celebrate the product that\u2019s put the small town on the food map.\u201CA big part of our community,\u201D says Karl Terry, Chamber of Commerce, talking about Sunland. \u201CThey're always, always there for us and we're there for them right now.\u201DSunland officials estimate parts of the plant will be back up and running in the next week or two, while the peanut butter part of the company won\u2019t be cleaned and ready for months. They say they don\u2019t yet know what caused the harmful bacteria to end up in a jar of peanut butter, but are analyzing extensive data trying to figure it out.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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