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The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters.

Warning letters often are not issued until a company has been given months to years to correct problems. Midwest Foods LLC Ankeny, IA The FDA has warned a food firm in Iowa over Acidified Foods Violations, Misbranded Food, and more, including inaccuracies in product labeling. In a May 21 warning letter, the FDA described a Dec.



11-13, 2023, inspection of Midwest Foods LLC’s ready-to-eat (RTE) food manufacturing facility in Ankeny, IA. The FDA’s inspection revealed that the firm was not in compliance with federal regulations, which resulted in the issuance of an FDA Form 483. Some of the significant violations are as follows: Acidified Foods Violations 1.

As a commercial processor engaged in the thermal processing of acidified foods, the firm must provide the FDA information as to the scheduled processes, including conditions for heat processing and control of pH, salt, sugar, and preservative level and source and date of the establishment of the process, for each acidified food in each container size, as required. The firm failed to file their scheduled processes with the FDA for each acidified food in each container size. Specifically: • They do not have scheduled processes on file with the FDA.

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