| Check for off odors, and high temperatures (Photo a). If you find off odors in any shipment, or the temperature is high in refrigerated loads, it may mean the delivered products are unsafe. | . |
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Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Inspecting Incoming Food Materials Industry Activities Staff; Revised January 26, 1999 |
| Check for off odors, and high temperatures (Photo a). If you find off odors in any shipment, or the temperature is high in refrigerated loads, it may mean the delivered products are unsafe. | . |
REASONS:
1. Foul odors may have been caused by the failure to remove food particles, filth and infestation resulting from previous shipments and to clean the carrier properly before loading your shipment.
2. The products may have been decomposed before being loaded, causing the off-odor.
3. The products may have absorbed harmful off-odors before shipment.
4. Toxic solvents, petroleum products or chemicals may have been carried with your shipment and unloaded before arrival at your receiving dock.
5. Frozen products, in the refrigerated load, may have been allowed to thaw (Photo b) during shipment, permitting the bacteria to grow and produce off-odors which accumulated.
6. High temperature, in refrigerated compartments, will allow the few bacteria normally present in the products to increase to dangerous numbers and to produce harmful decomposition products and odors (Photo c).
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| DO NOT ACCEPT SHIPMENT IF OFF-ODOR OR HIGH TEMPERATURE IS OBSERVED. INSTEAD, CLOSE COMPARTMENT DOORS IMMEDIATELY AND TELL YOUR SUPERVISOR. SUCH PRODUCTS CAN BE A DANGER TO HEALTH -- THEREFORE MAY BE SEIZED. |
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