IA #03-05, 6/29/01 - REVISION OF IMPORT ALERT #03-05, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION OF PAPAD AND FARFAR WAFERS FROM INDIA", ATTACHMENT -
3/14/02
TYPE OF ALERT: Detention Without Physical Examination
(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current
guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the
manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not
create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does
not operate to bind FDA or the public).
PRODUCT: Papad and farfar wafers, all varieties
PRODUCT
CODE: 03Y[][]99
PROBLEM: Filth (insect, rodent, and/or other animal)
PAF: ***FIL***
PAC FOR
COLLECTION: 03819A
COUNTRY: India
MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER FEI#: See attachment
IMPORTER'S
ID#: All
CHARGE: "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to
Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to contain filth
(insect, rodent, and/or other animal filth) [Adulterated,
402(a)(3)]."
OASIS CHARGE
CODE: ***FILTHY***
RECOMMENDING
OFFICE: Chicago District, HFR-MW140
Dallas District, HFR-SW140
REASON FOR
ALERT: From March through September 1991, 47 shipments of papad and
farfar style products were offered for entry through various
ports. Fourteen entries were detained without physical
examination due to filth or pesticide contamination.
Twenty-six of the remaining shipments were analyzed using
AOAC, 15th Ed., Sections 969.41 and 975.4B(b), 1990 and
found to be violative for insanitation due to the presence
of insect, rodent and other filth violations including
shipments from 10 different manufacturers/packers.
Papad wafers are parchment thin, brittle disks usually made
from a wet-ground moong or urad-dal bean paste or tapioca or
mashed potatoes and spices. The products can be sun-dried
or heat processed.
GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination shipments
of all varieties of papad and farfar wafers from India
***except those manufacturers/shippers listed in the
attachment.***
***For questions or issues concerning science, science
policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or
analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field
Science at (301) 827-7605.***
PRIORITIZATION
GUIDANCE: II
FOI: No purging is required
KEYWORDS: Papads, Farfar, Wafers, Filth, Sanitation
PREPARED BY: Jack Geltman, DIOP, (301) 443-6553
DATE LOADED
INTO FIARS: June 29, 2001
*** ATTACHMENT TO IA 03-05 REVISED 3/14/02
LIST OF SHIPPERS/MANUFACTURERS EXEMPT FROM DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION***
***FIRM PRODUCT/PRODUCT CODE
MTR Foods, Limited Plain Papad/03Y[][]99
No. 80, Bommasandra Idustrial 6/29/01
Area, Hebbagodi, Anekal Taluk
Bangalore 562 158
India
FEI #1000500626***
Valod Food Products Papads (All Varieties)
Sunderbaug, Sedhi Road /03Y[][]99
Surat, Gujarat 3/14/02
India
FEI #3003593956
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