FDA Creates Import Alert for Food Potentially Contaminated by Harmful Chemicals
The FDA has created an import alert to list companies found to be producing human food products that may have been contaminated chemically because of improper preparations or insanitary conditions.
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The Aug. 14 Import Alert 99-51 gave food contaminated by cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear testing, as an example warranting an alert.
The import alert has so far added one company to its list: Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia for all of its shrimp products. The designation makes those products subject to detention without physical examination.