Adultered seafood spoted on US market
Food and Drug Administration has issued two warning letters addressed to companies based in Alabama (USA) and Indonesia for serious violations of U.S. law, specifically the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation. Such violations generally result in companies’ food being determined to be adulterated and therefore possibly injurious to health.
FDA is expecting a response in 15 days and if the companies do not respond in this period, or those who fail to adequately respond, are subject to other enforcement efforts, including food-recalls, seizure of products, forced closure or other activities. The two companies warned by the US federal administration are Timothy Neilsen Seafood, based in Coden, Alabama, and PT. Galaxy Nusa Dua, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
The American company was discovered not having a HACCP plan for " refrigerated, ready-to-eat crabmeat to control the food safety hazards of environmental chemical contaminants, pathogenic bacterial growth due to temperature abuse, pathogenic bacterial survival through cooking or pasteurizing, allergens, and metal inclusion,", as mentioned in the letter.
PT. Galaxy Nusa Dua was warned about the non-compliance with the US laws of the HACCP plan for frozen, vacuum-packed tuna. The product was discovered by FDA inspectors in the stores of Gourmet Fusion Foods Inc. in Culver City, California.
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