Under new authorities granted to it in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of January 2011, FDA now has authority to actually shut down operations at food production facilities if it deems that there is a significant threat to public health. It exercised this authority for the first time in September 2012 when it shut down the Sunland, Inc., peanut-processing facility in Portales, NM, when Salmonella contamination was discovered.