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Guidance for Industry: Reconditioning of Fish and Fishery Products by Segregation

FinalHuman Foods Program04/13/2022

Description

This guidance is intended to clarify steps that owners of fish and fishery products, or their representatives, can take to segregate non-violative products from products adulterated with pathogens, unlawful animal drugs, scombrotoxin (histamine), and decomposition, to demonstrate compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act).  Specifically, this document provides guidance for reconditioning by:

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

1
Fish and Fishery Products

The primary product category covered by the sampling recommendations.; Products subject to detention without physical examination; Subject to detention without physical examination (DWPE)

Stakeholders

3
Owner

Person whose actions may cause a product to be deemed adulterated

Processor

An establishment that performs processing steps on ACTPs.

Compliance officer

FDA official handling seizures or import notices

Regulatory Context

Attributes

2
Production code

Attribute used to identify and segregate portions of an article

95% confidence level

Statistical parameter for detecting health risk adulterants

Identified Hazards

Hazards

4
Pathogens

Microbiological hazard causing adulteration; Sampling recommendations for detecting contamination

Unlawful animal drugs

Adulterant mentioned as a cause for reconditioning.

Decomposition

A condition leading to the appearance of adulteration.

Scombrotoxin

Also known as histamine; a hazard in fish products.; Safety hazard in fishery products; Histamine contamination in fishery products

Related CFR Sections (3)

See Also (4)

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