Updated: June 28, 2013

Three of the remaining national sales outlets for Paula Deen-brand cookware and tableware, Sears, Kmart and JC Penney, have decided to stop selling the products. A statement from Sears Holding Company, which owns Kmart, said, “After careful consideration of all available information, we have made the decision to phase out all products tied to the brand.”

Currently, Kmart sells more than 250 Paula Deen products and Sears about 60. JC Penney said it would remove Paula Deen-brand merchandise from its Web site this weekend. The company will sell any remaining merchanise in stores.

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The celebrity chef Paula Deen has run into trouble with another major corporate partner: the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk said on Thursday that it would suspend its relationship in the wake of her admission that she used racist language in the past.