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Import Alert 12-12
(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public).
Import Alert # 12-12
Published Date: 10/31/2011
Type: DWPE
Import Alert Name:
"Detention Without Physical Examination of Cheeses Containing Nitrates"
Reason for Alert:
Label review of an entry of pasteurized, part skim, Spiced Cheese, found the label to declare "Conserveringsmiddel (E251)" (Preservative E251). Label review of a second entry of Spanish Cured, Sheep Milk Cheese, found the label to declare "conservante (E252)." Currently the European system of naming food additives lists E251 as sodium nitrate and E252 as potassium nitrate.
There are no regulations that provide for the use of these or other salts of nitrates in dairy products including cheeses. In addition, FDA believes that these ingredients are not "generally recognized as safe" for their intended uses in cheese.
There are no regulations that provide for the use of these or other salts of nitrates in dairy products including cheeses. In addition, FDA believes that these ingredients are not "generally recognized as safe" for their intended uses in cheese.
Guidance:
Districts may detain, without physical examination, the specified products from the firm's identified on the Red List for this alert.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at 301 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at 301 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
Product Description:
Cheese (see attachment)
Charge:
"The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to contain a food additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409. [Adulteration, Section 402(a)(2)(c)]"
OASIS charge code - UNSAFE ADD
OASIS charge code - UNSAFE ADD
EGYPT
Four M Export & Import
Date Published : 11/15/2010
11 morkus bechara street-shoubra-cairo , 5 ahmad sadek street - shoubra - cairo , Cairo, EG-C EGYPT
12 A - - 19 Cheese, Hard (Chesire,Esrum,Fortina,Fortine,Kasseni,Mozzarella,Montasio,Pecarino,Port Salut, Etc)
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
12 C - - 99 Cheese Products, Non-Standardized, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
12 Y - - 99 Cheese And Cheese Products, Not Elsewhere Mentioned, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo & Cow's milk cheese)
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.a.e
Date Published : 11/15/2010
Industrial Zone , New Damietta, EGYPT
12 A - - 19 Cheese, Hard (Chesire,Esrum,Fortina,Fortine,Kasseni,Mozzarella,Montasio,Pecarino,Port Salut, Etc)
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo & Cow's Milk Cheese)
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
12 C - - 99 Cheese Products, Non-Standardized, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
12 Y - - 99 Cheese And Cheese Products, Not Elsewhere Mentioned, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/15/2010
Desc:Roomy Cheese (hard Buffalo & Cow's Milk Cheese)
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
Notes:NOTE: Products from Four M Export & Import are subject to DWPE unless shown to not be Roomy Cheese manufactured by Halayeb For Dairy Product & Juice S.A.E
NETHERLANDS
Visser Kaashandel BV
Date Published : 06/07/2010
Nijverheidsweg 20 , Huizen, NL-NOTA NETHERLANDS
12 A - - 12 Cheese, Edam
Date Published: 06/07/2010
Desc:Edam Cheese
NORWAY
Norwegian Dairies Association
Date Published : 09/10/2009
P.O. Box 9051 Vaterland , Oslo 1, NORWAY
12 A - - 19 Cheese, Hard (Chesire,Esrum,Fortina,Fortine,Kasseni,Mozzarella,Montasio,Pecarino,Port Salut, Etc)
Date Published: 09/10/2009
Notes:Part-Skim Spiced Cheese "Nokkel Skorpefri" Nokelost Brand
4/17/2001
SPAIN
S.COOP.INSULAR GANADERA DE MENORCA COINGA-MAHON SEMICURADO
Date Published : 10/31/2011
CRTA. NUEVA S/N - APARTADO 41 , Alaior Menorca, ES-PM SPAIN
12 A - - 52 Cheese, Semisoft
Date Published: 10/31/2011
Desc:Queso Mahon (Semi-soft cheese)
Notes:NOTE: This firm and product is listed on Import Alert 12-10 for L. Monocytogenes
Notes:NOTE: This firm and product is listed on Import Alert 12-10 for L. Monocytogenes
Problems:
POTASSIUM NITRITE CFR-172.160 (PRE/ILL);
POTASSIUM NITRATE CFR-172.160 (PRE);
SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA GANADERA DE MENORCA
Date Published : 10/31/2011
CTRA. NUEVA, S/N 07730-ALAIOR ISLAS BAL , Alaior, ES-PM SPAIN
12 A - - 52 Cheese, Semisoft
Date Published: 10/31/2011
Desc:Queso Mahon (Semi-soft cheese)
Notes:NOTE: This firm and product is listed on Import Alert 12-10 for L. Monocytogenes
Notes:NOTE: This firm and product is listed on Import Alert 12-10 for L. Monocytogenes
Problems:
POTASSIUM NITRITE CFR-172.160 (PRE/ILL);
POTASSIUM NITRATE CFR-172.160 (PRE);
UKRAINE
Jsc Shostka Dairy Plant
Date Published : 09/10/2009
41103 , Shostka, UKRAINE
12 - - - -- Cheese/Cheese Prod
Date Published: 11/27/2009
Notes:3/29/2006
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