IA #12-12, REVISION 4/17/01, IMPORT ALERT #12-12, "Detention Without Physical
Examination of Cheeses Containing Nitrates."
(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).
TYPE OF ALERT: Detention without Physical Examination
PRODUCT: Cheese
PRODUCT CODE: See Attachment
PROBLEM: Nitrates
PAF: FAD (Food Additive)
PAC FOR
COLLECTION: 09006A
COUNTRY: See Attachment
MANUFACTURERS/
SHIPPER/FEI #: See Attachment
CHARGE: "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to
Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to contain a food additive
which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409."
[Adulteration, Section 402(a)(2)(c)].
OASIS CHARGE
CODE: UNSAFE ADD
RECOMMENDING
OFFICE: NYK-DO (HFR-NE152)
REASON FOR
ALERT: Label review of an entry of pasteurized, part skim, Spiced
Cheese, found the label to declare "Conserveringsmiddel (E251)"
(Preservative E251). Label review of a second entry of Spanish
Cured, Sheep Milk Cheese, found the label to declare
"conservante (E252)." Currently the European system of naming
food additives lists E251 as sodium nitrate and E252 as
potassium nitrate. There are no regulations that provide for
the use of these or other salts of nitrates in dairy products
including cheeses. In addition, FDA believes that these
ingredients are not "generally recognized as safe" for their
intended uses in cheese.
GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination the specified
products from the firm's identified on the attachment for this
alert.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy,
sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical
methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at (301)
443-3320 or 3007.
PRIORITIZATION
GUIDANCE: I
FOI: No purging is necessary
KEYWORDS: Cheese, nitrates, additives
PREPARED BY: Stella Notzon, Division of Import Operations and Policy, HFC-
170, 301-443-6553
DATE LOADED
INTO FIARS: April 17, 2001
Attachment to Import Alert # 12-12 4/16/09
(Firms/products that may be subject to DWPE)
NORWAY (NO)
Firm Name and Address: Product/PC Date of DWPE:
Norwegian Dairies Association Part-Skim Spiced 4/17/01
P.O. Box 9051 Vaterland Cheese
Oslo 1, Norway "Nokkel Skorpefri"
FEI # 1000181201 Nokelost Brand
12A- -19
SPAIN (ES)
Jsc Shostka Dairy Plant SEMI-SOFT CHEESE/12A--52 3/29/06
41103 "ROSISYSKY CHEESE"
Shostka, Ukraine
FEI # 3005425548
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