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Zdrowie i gospodarka · 27.09.2010

Draft Guidance for Industry: Acidified Foods; Availability

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance entitled "Guidance for Industry: Acidified Foods." The draft guidance, when finalized, will complement FDA's regulations regarding acidified foods, including regulations for specific current good manufacturing practice (CGMP), establishment registration, and process filing. The draft guidance is intended to assist commercial food processors in determining whether their food products are subject to these regulations. The draft guidance also is intended to assist processors of acidified foods in ensuring safe manufacturing, processing, and packing processes and in employing appropriate quality control procedures. Under the draft guidance, processors of non-acidified foods (e.g., some acid foods or fermented foods) who are not subject to the acidified food regulations may choose to voluntarily register and file scheduled processes with us using existing forms (Forms FDA 2541 and 2541a). If such processors voluntarily submit this information, we plan to make the results of any FDA evaluation of the information available to our investigators, e.g., during inspections of food facilities and during e

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