IA #21-06 8/7/97 - "AUTOMATIC DETENTION AND INTENSIFED COVERAGE OF CANNED PEACHES FROM GREECE FOR PIT FRAGMENTS AND MOLD" ATTACHMENT A 5/10/01 ATTACHMENT B 5/10/01 NOTE: This revision was issued to create attachments and revise the current format. Changes are bracketed by asterisks. TYPE OF ALERT: *** Detention Without Physical Examination (DWPE) *** Intensified coverage (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: Peaches, canned PRODUCT CODE: 21G[]E13 PROBLEM: Pit Fragments Mold PAF: FIL - Filth FDQ - Standard of Quality PAC FOR COLLECTION: 03819A - Mold 21004 - Pit Fragments (Standards) COUNTRY: Greece (GR) MANUFACTURER/ SHIPPER FEI#: See attachment IMPORTER'S ID#: N/A CHARGE: Mold: "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to consist in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, in that it appears to contain mold [Adulteration, Section 402(a)(3)]." AND Pit Fragments (Standards): "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it purports to be canned yellow peach slices, a food for which a standard of quality has been prescribed by regulation (21 CFR 145.170(b)), promulgated pursuant to Section 401, and its quality appears to fall below such standard due to excessive pits and pieces of pits (Section 145.170(b)(1)(viii)), and its label fails to bear, in such manner and form as regulations specify, a statement that it falls below such standard [Misbranded 403(h)(1)]." *** OASIS CHARGE CODE: FILTHY STD QUALIT *** RECOMMENDING OFFICE: FLA-DO, (HFR-SE240) REASON FOR ALERT: Between December 15, 1994 and January 30, 1995, 10 of 10 shipments of canned peaches from Union of Agricultural Coop, Giannitsa, Greece, were sampled by Orlando (currently Florida) district, found violative, and detained and refused entry (9 because of mold and pits/pit fragments, 1 because of insect filth). Between September 9, 1994 and January 24, 1995, 4 of 5 shipments of canned peaches from Prodromos Pavlides, S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece were sampled by Orlando (currently Florida) district, found violative for pits/pit fragments, and detained and refused entry. In addition, New Orleans (currently Nashville) district sampled an entry of canned peaches from Prodromos Pavlides, S.A., which was found violative for pits, and was detained on December 16, 1994. Also, Orlando (currently Florida) district found canned peaches from two other firms in Greece, Almac, S.A. and Confruta S.A. Canning Ind. violative for mold and pits/pit fragments. GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination shipments of canned peaches from the firms identified on Attachment A to this alert for excessive pit fragments and mold. *** Intensified coverage of the firms on Attachment B may be warranted since product has been found violative for pits and/or mold. *** 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: III FOI: No purging required KEYWORDS: Canned, pits, slices, peaches, mold, filth PREPARED BY: Ted Poplawski, DIOP, (301) 443-6553 DATE LOADED INTO FIARS: May 10, 2001 ATTACHMENT A FOR IMPORT ALERT# 21-06 REVISED 5/10/01 Firms recommended for DWPE FIRM DATE DET'N Agricultural Products S.A. 4/25/01 58500 Skydra N Pellis, Greece FEI# 3003110779 Union of Agricultural Coop 8/7/97 7D and M Papadop Giannitsa, Greece FEI# 1000206820 ATTACHMENT B FOR IMPORT ALERT# 21-06 REVISED 5/10/01 Firms recommended for intensive coverage FIRM Almac, S.A. 3 Premetis 15125 Maroussi Athens, Greece FEI# 1000244095 Confruta S.A. Canning Ind. 47, I. Dragoumi Str. Thessaloniki, Greece FEI# 1000244180