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Guidance for Industry: Exemptions from the Warning Label Requirement for Juice

FinalHuman Foods Program10/07/2002

Description

This guidance represents the agency's current thinking on reducing microbial food safety hazards in juice. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. This guidance document supercedes "Warning and Notice Statement: Labeling of Juice Products Small Entity Compliance Guide," September 18, 1998.

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

1
Juice

Product category subject to FDA HACCP regulations.

Stakeholders

3
Very small processors

processors subject to HACCP rule by January 20, 2004

Small processors

processors subject to HACCP rule by January 21, 2003; Entities not subject to the juice HACCP rule until January 21, 2003.

Retail establishment

An operation providing juice directly to consumers, exempt from HACCP but subject to labeling.

Regulatory Context

Attributes

2
5-log Reduction

The specific performance standard for pathogen reduction (100,000-fold).

Shelf-life

intended storage conditions throughout the proposed shelf-life

Identified Hazards

Hazards

2
Pathogens

Microbiological hazard causing adulteration; Sampling recommendations for detecting contamination

Pathogenic microorganisms

Biological hazards the cleaning protocol should eliminate

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