If the Castleberry name sounds familiar, it should. Last summer they recalled more than 90 products and 27 different brands of food due to reports of botulism linked to their products.
Federal food safety officials have shut down an Augusta processing company involved with a massive recall of canned chili linked to botulism poisoning last summer.
Castleberry's Food Company received a letter from the Food and Drug Administration on Friday that suspended its operating permit. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which monitors food plants that include meat in their products, also pulled its inspectors from the Augusta plant on Friday, spokeswoman Amanda Eamich said.
The FDA permit was a temporary one, issued last September with specific conditions that allowed the company to reopen after a two-month shutdown tied to the botulism investigation.
Problems on a processing line not associated with last summer's recall triggered the permit suspension, said Kim Rawlings, an FDA spokeswoman.
There have been no reports of illness tied to any products. The federal agencies suspended operations at the plant after an FDA inspection, Eamich said.
So far there is no reason why they shut it down, but I'm sure the answer is quite interesting. Either way, I know it doesn't affect me or my family as we haven't purchased any of their products since the recall last summer.
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