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Juice and Juice Safety
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Introduction
Juices provide many essential nutrients, but consuming untreated juices can pose health risks to your family. The FDA has investigated serious outbreaks of foodborne illness have been traced to drinking fruit and vegetable juice and cider that were not treated to kill harmful bacteria. The FDA also monitors juice for contaminants such as arsenic and pesticides.
Consumer Information
- Talking About Juice Safety: What You Need to Know
- Food Safety for Moms-to-Be: Safe Eats - Fruits, Veggies & Juices
- FDA: Apple Juice Is Safe to Drink
Regulations & Guidance
Guidance for Industry
- Refrigerated Carrot Juice and Other Refrigerated Low-Acid Juices (June 2007)
- Letter to State Regulatory Agencies and Firms That Produce Treated (but not Pasteurized) and Untreated Juice and Cider (September 22, 2005)
- Recommendations to Processors of Apple Juice or Cider on the Use of Ozone for Pathogen Reduction Purposes (November 2004)
- More on Guidance for Industry
Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- HACCP Procedures for the Safe and Sanitary Processing and Importing of Juice: Final Rule Federal Register January 19, 2001
- Labeling of Juice Products: Final Rule Federal Register, July 8, 1998
- More on HACCP
Additional Resources
- Fruits, Vegetables, and Juices
- Arsenic in Apple Juice
- Carbendazim in Orange Juice Products
- Arsenic in Pear Juice Analytical Results, 2005-2011
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