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
Continue Reading Warning letters sent to companies in Mintlaw, Scotland and Maspeth, NY

The Food and Drug Administration recently sent warning letters to a baked goods manufacturer in New York, a ready-to-eat (RTE) food manufacturer in Georgia, and livestock auctioneer in Ohio, because inspectors found significant violations of U.S. food safety laws at their operations.

Businesses have 15 days to respond in writing
Continue Reading FDA warns firms for Listeria, rodents, potentially harmful drug residues in livestock

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unresolved issues with the Tsukiji Motohiko Co. Ltd. located in the Kato area of Tokyo, according to a recently released May 7 warning letter sent by FDA to the Japanese seafood processing company.

FDA inspected the facility last Feb. 21 and 22.
Continue Reading Japanese seafood processor gets warning letter for operating without HACCP plan

Velvet Ice Cream Company Inc.’s ice cream manufacturing facility in Utica, OH, was inspected by the FDA from Jan. 23 to Feb. 14 and the results were not good. Lab tests showed the plant was harboring the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.

Environmental samples collected at the facility during this year’s inspection
Continue Reading Velvet Ice Cream Company warned for Listeria in production facility

In an April 11 warning letter to owner James Darren Hudson, the FDA described violations observed during inspection visits on Feb. 5, 13, and 14 at the James D. Hudson Livestock operation in Caneyville, KY. Investigators found that the firm holds animals under conditions that are so inadequate that medicated


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