During a Feb. 2 inspection at Meridian Trading Company in Boulder, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited the company for 5 issues related to foodborne biological hazards, according to information published on the FDA’s website.
The FDA website details the following citations issued to the company:
- ‘Your hazard analysis did not identify a hazard that requires a control.’
- ‘You did not document that you approved a foreign supplier based on an evaluation that you conducted of the foreign supplier’s performance and the risk posed by a food or based on a review and assessment of another entity’s evaluation of a foreign supplier’s performance and the risk posed by a food.’
- ‘You did not establish written procedures to ensure that you import foods only from approved foreign suppliers.’
- ‘Your verification activity did not address the entity that is significantly minimizing or preventing the hazards or verifying that the hazards have been significantly minimized or prevented.’
- ‘For a food that may contain a hazard that will be controlled by the foreign supplier and is one for which there is a reasonable probability that exposure to the hazard will result in serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals, you did not conduct and document or obtain documentation of an onsite audit of the foreign supplier.’
The FDA conducts periodic inspections nationwide to assess whether facilities and their products comply with FDA laws and regulations that aim to enhance public health. Results of these inspections are made publicly available.
The agency’s website states the FDA is a government agency chiefly tasked with overseeing the safety and quality of human and animal drugs, biological products, medical supplies, and tobacco products.
Information for this article was provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The original data is available here.
