CPG Sec 585.200 Beets, Canned - Adulteration with Rot

Administrative guidance, not enacted legislation. This captured publisher edition preserves the listed document and attachments; later developments are not independently consolidated.

Issued by:: Guidance Issuing Office

Human Foods Program

Office of Inspections and Investigations

Manual of Compliance Policy Guides Chapter 5 - Food, Colors, and Cosmetics

The following represents criteria for direct reference seizure *requests to the Office of Human and Animal Food Operations (OHAFO) in consultation with the Office of Enforcement and Import Operations (OEIO) and CFSAN, and for direct citation by the appropriate Field Office within the Human and Animal Food Program*:

The canned beets contain an average of 5% or more, by weight, pieces with dry rot.

SPECIMEN CHARGE:

*The article was adulterated when introduced into and while in interstate commerce, and is adulterated while held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce within the meaning of 21 U.S.C. 342(a)(3), in that it consists in part of a decomposed substance by reason of the presence therein of beets with dry rot.

NOTE: Use direct reference citation authority only when prosecution is anticipated and evidence to support a prosecution is included with the adulteration charge. Evidence necessary to support a prosecution is specified in existing regulatory procedures issuances.*

*Material between asterisks is new or revised.*

Issued: 11/7/79

Reissued: 10/1/80

Revised: 11/1/81, 12/8/88

Updated: 11/29/05

Submit Comments

Submit comments on this guidance document electronically via docket ID: FDA-2013-S-0610 - Specific Electronic Submissions Intended For FDA's Dockets Management Staff (i.e., Citizen Petitions, Draft Proposed Guidance Documents, Variances, and other administrative record submissions)

If unable to submit comments online, please mail written comments to:

Dockets Management
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane, Rm 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

All comments should be identified with the title of the guidance.

CPG Sec. 585.200 Beets, Canned - Adulteration
with Rot
REGULATORY ACTION GUIDANCE:
The following represents criteria for direct reference seizure *requests to the Office of Human
and Animal Food Operations (OHAFO) in consultation with the Office of Enforcement and
Import Operations (OEIO) and CFSAN, and for direct citation by the appropriate Field Office
within the Human and Animal Food Program*:
The canned beets contain an average of 5% or more, by weight, pieces with dry rot.
SPECIMEN CHARGE:
*The article was adulterated when introduced into and while in interstate commerce, and is
adulterated while held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce within the meaning of 21
U.S.C. 342(a)(3), in that it consists in part of a decomposed substance by reason of the presence
therein of beets with dry rot.
NOTE: Use direct reference citation authority only when prosecution is anticipated and evidence
to support a prosecution is included with the adulteration charge. Evidence necessary to support
a prosecution is specified in existing regulatory procedures issuances.*
*Material between asterisks is new or revised.*
Issued: 11/7/79
Reissued: 10/1/80
Revised: 11/1/81, 12/8/88
Updated: 11/29/05

CPG Sec 585.200 Beets, Canned - Adulteration with Rot

Submit Comments

Continue your research in ChatGPT or Claude