December 22, 2014 — A relatively large number of food processors received notices from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the agency’s latest round of warning letters.
Four seafood processors were notified about inadequacies in their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans. A StarKist facility in Ecuador had “significant deviations” from their HACCP plans for canned and pouched tuna, according to FDA, while Van Oriental Food of Dallas, TX, allegedly did not have complete HACCP plans for its egg roll-production process.
Hawaii-based Pacific Hi-Tak had problems with their HACCP plan for vacuum-packed yellowtail, and Yandi New York Trading Co. of Brooklyn, NY, was warned for lacking a HACCP plan for its imported dried anchovies, FDA letters stated.
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