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Patidar Commerce, Inc.
North Brunswick, NJ
An import firm in New Jersey is on discover from the FDA for not having FSVPs for quite a few imported meals merchandise.
In a Jan. 6, 2022, warning letter the FDA described an Aug. 10 by way of Sept. 10, 2021, Overseas Provider Verification Program (FSVP) inspection of Patidar Commerce, Inc. in North Brunswick, NJ.
The FDA’s inspection revealed that the agency was not in compliance with FSVP laws and resulted within the issuance of an FDA Kind 483a. The numerous violations are as follows:
The agency didn’t develop, preserve, and observe an FSVP. Particularly, they didn’t develop an FSVP for every of the next meals:
- Wheat flour imported from (redacted)
- Rice flour imported from (redacted)
- Phool makhana imported from (redacted)
The FDA additionally famous that sure meals imported from the agency’s overseas provider, (redacted), are at the moment topic to detention with out bodily examination (DWPE) based mostly on a number of Import Alerts (IA):
- IA #45-02, for meals containing unlawful and/or undeclared colours;
- IA #99-08, for processed human and animal meals for pesticides
- IA #99-19, for meals merchandise as a result of presence of Salmonella;
- IA #99-21, for meals merchandise containing sulfites.
Subsequently, when the agency imports these meals topic to DWPE as described in these recognized IAs, they’re topic to refusal of admission in that the meals seems to be adulterated and/or misbranded.
The total warning letter could be seen right here.
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