IA #26-04, REVISION - 4/1/99, IMPORT ALERT #26-04 "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION OF EXPRESSED MUSTARD OIL"
This import alert is being revised to clarify the guidance and to
update the product codes and format.
TYPE OF ALERT: DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA
field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or product(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).
PRODUCT : Expressed Mustard Oil
PRODUCT CODE : 26A[][]12, crude vegetable oil (mustard)
26C[][]11, refined vegetable oil, single ingredient
(mustard)
PROBLEM : Unsafe food additive (FANC)
PAF : FAD
PAC FORPAC
COLLECTION : 09006A
COUNTRY : All
MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER : All
MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER FEI# : All
CHARGE : "The article is subject to refusal of admission
pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to
bear a food additive, which is unsafe within the
meaning of section 409 [adulteration, Section
402(a)(2)(c)]."
RECOMMENDING
OFFICE : NYK-DO
REASON FOR
ALERT : Expressed mustard oil is not permitted for use as a
vegetable oil. It may contain 20 to 40% erucic acid,
which has been shown to cause nutritional deficiencies
and cardiac lesions in test animals.
Expressed mustard oil is reportedly used by some
cultures as a cooking oil. NYK-DO has documented
entries of this product for cooking or other general
use.
It is important to note that there is another product
referred to as mustard oil that is GRAS (Generally
Recognized As Safe) and does have an approved food
use. This oil is essential oil of mustard or volatile
mustard oil and is a flavoring produced by steam
distillation of black mustard flour or mustard cake.
Although commonly referred to as mustard oil, this
product has very little triglyceride component, and
therefore, probably very little viscosity. This
essential oil has an approved use as a flavoring per
CFR 182.20.
GUIDANCE : Districts may detain without physical examination all
entries of expressed mustard oil.
Districts may need to establish which type of oil is
offered for entry to determine applicability of this
import alert. This alert applies only to the viscous
fatty oil expressed from mustard seed, which does not
contain the flavoring components found in the
essential oil. The correct product code for the
essential oil of mustard used as a flavoring is
28O[][]01.
PRIORITIZATION
GUIDANCE : II
FOI : No purging is necessary
KEYWORDS : MUSTARD, OIL, EXPRESSED, ESSENTIAL, ADDITIVE
PREPARED BY : Linda Wisniowski, DIOP, 301-443-6553
DATE LOADED
INTO FIARS : April 1, 1999
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