The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)
Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition
(CFSAN) issued guidance to the food industry advising
manufacturers that peanuts and peanut-derived products used as
food ingredients pose a risk of
Salmonella
contamination, according to a
press release
by CFSAN.
CFSAN also issued a companion bulletin to operators of
food-service establishments and retail food stores that offer
food products containing peanuts and peanut-derived
ingredients.
The
FDA
will accept public comments on the guidance, which along
with the bulletin was posted March 9 on the FDA's website (
Peanut-Derived Product Guidance
and
Peanut-Derived Product Bulletin
). Both are scheduled to be published soon in the
Federal
Register
.
