Import Alert 03-05
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(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 # 03-05
Published Date: 10/06/2011
Type: DWPE
Import Alert Name:
"Detention Without Physcial Examination of Papad and Farfar Wafers From India"
Reason for Alert:
From March through September 1991, 47 shipments of papad and farfar style products were offered for entry through various ports. Fourteen entries were detained without physical examination due to filth or pesticide contamination.
Twenty-six of the remaining shipments were analyzed using AOAC, 15th Ed., Sections 969.41 and 975.4B(b), 1990 and found to be violative for insanitation due to the presence of insect, rodent and other filth violations including shipments from 10 different manufacturers/packers.
Papad wafers are parchment thin, brittle disks usually made from a wet-ground moong or urad-dal bean paste or tapioca or mashed potatoes and spices. The products can be sun-dried or heat processed.
Twenty-six of the remaining shipments were analyzed using AOAC, 15th Ed., Sections 969.41 and 975.4B(b), 1990 and found to be violative for insanitation due to the presence of insect, rodent and other filth violations including shipments from 10 different manufacturers/packers.
Papad wafers are parchment thin, brittle disks usually made from a wet-ground moong or urad-dal bean paste or tapioca or mashed potatoes and spices. The products can be sun-dried or heat processed.
Guidance:
Districts may detain, without physical examination, shipments of all varieties of papad and farfar wafers from India, except those manufacturers/shippers identified in the Green List.
Contact the Division of Field Science for questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology at 301 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
Contact the Division of Field Science for questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology at 301 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
Product Description:
Papad and farfar wafers, all varieties
Charge:
"The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to contain filth (insect, rodent, and/or other animal filth) [Adulterated, 402(a)(3)]."
OASIS Charge Code - FILTHY
OASIS Charge Code - FILTHY
Countries
INDIA
(03 Y - - 99) Other Bakery Products, N.E.C.
INDIA
MTR Foods Pvt Ltd
Date Published : 09/10/2009
No. 80, Bommasandra Industrial , Area Hebbagodi, Anekal Taluk , Bangalore, IN-KA INDIA
03 Y - - 99 Other Bakery Products, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/30/2009
Notes:Exempt - 6/29/2001
Valod Food Products
Date Published : 09/10/2009
Sunderbaug, Sedhi Road , Valod, Dist. , Surat, Gujarat INDIA
03 Y - - 99 Other Bakery Products, N.E.C.
Date Published: 11/30/2009
Notes:Exempt - 3/14/2002
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