Texas ? The shuttered Texas plant in Austin owned by a peanut company blamed in a national salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 700 people was fined a record $14.6 million on Thursday.

The state fined Plainview Peanut Corp. LLC over violations that include unsanitary conditions, product contamination, illnesses linked to peanuts from the plant and operating for almost four years without a food manufacturer’s license, the Texas Department of State Health Services said.

Spokesman Doug McBride said the fine was the largest ever levied by the department.