As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are
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FDA warns ready-to-eat condiment and hot sauce manufacturers
A Ready-to-Eat (RTE) single-serve condiment manufacturer from New York and a shelf-stable RTE hot sauce manufacturer are both on notice from the Food and Drug Administration for violations of federal food safety rules.
The FDA sent warning letters to the companies in September and August of 2018 and posted them…
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Nine days in March shows FDA is busy with warning letters
Food and Drug Administration warning letters sent out from March 15 to 24, 2017 show the agency continues to target a multitude of practices that it finds not in compliance.
On March 15, FDA sent a warning letter to Country Favor Inc. in Maspeth, NY over the seafood importer’s “serious…
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Hawaii Food Center Gets Chance to Clean Up
A contract food bottling and packaging company on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was responsible for the recall of about 100 local food products in January received a June 29 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relating to the incident.
First Commercial Kitchens, LLC, which…
Botulism Concerns in Salsa, Con Queso Recall
Con Queso and salsa distributed in Arizona and Washington are being recalled by a Phoenix company after a routine inspection by the Food and Drug Administration found that the products were not processed according to acidified food regulations.
Mama Rose’s Gourmet Foods is voluntarily recalling its Cilantro Con Queso, Garlic…
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FDA Questions Dipping Sauce Processing
Wild Thymes Farm Inc., which sells its products by mail and through popular retailers, has run afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) acidified food regulations.
FDA says Wild Thymes’ acidified Indonesian Peanut Sesame Dipping Sauce has been packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have…
Enforcing Acidified Food Regulations In Korea
Since the 1970s when Americans went through a few life-threatening botulism outbreaks because of low-acid foods improperly packaged in hermetically sealed containers, there have been rules in place to prevent that from happening.
Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finds itself having to explain those rules to companies…
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Acidified Food Maker Fails to Register with FDA
Hard-E Foods Inc. does not have scheduled processes established by an acidified foods expert for its Pickled Eggs, Garlic Mustard Pickled Eggs, Beet Pickled Eggs, Sweet Pickled Eggs, and Hot Pickled Eggs.
The St. Louis-based manufacturer of acidified food products also failed to register with FDA as a commercial processor…
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