The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued important updates to it FDA Food Code to aid in foodborne illness mitigation, food safety awareness, revised cooking requirements and more for retail food stores, restaurants and other public food services.
The FDA is modifying the yogurt standard of identity to allow the use of all safe and suitable sweeteners, and to make the minimum optional fortification of Vitamin D 10% of the Daily Value.
Companies need to establish that their water system is adequately designed, controlled, maintained and monitored to ensure that it is consistently producing water for its intended use.
A flood of warning letters from the FDA on water system suitability could pull the plug on the production of food, beverage, cosmetic, nutraceutical and over-the-counter (OTC) or pharmaceutical products if companies are not conducting total organic carbon (TOC) water testing analysis on a regular basis.