FDA report on Cross-Contamination

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Mon, 09/18/2006 - 12:48
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Given the actual title of this report, (Report to The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate And The Committee on Energy and Commerce United States House of Representatives) I'm guessing FDA isn't going out of its way to bring attention to the cross-contamination issue.

[url="http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/alrgrep.pdf"]http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/alrgrep.pdf[/url]

Not much news here, altough I found Table 2 interesting. In 176 facilities (out of 1,454 total), buildup of material or pockets of residue that could contain allergy were observed AFTER an allergen run and subsequent cleaning. Of those 176, only 50 used advisory labels.

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Mon, 09/18/2006 - 15:40
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I didn't read the report, but I did the math. If that's right, 12% of the places they check had this "allergen build-up", and only 3% of all the places don't label for it. 28% of the 176 places with the issues didn't label it.

I figure, with the help of this board, we've probably got a handle on what those companies in the 3% are already....

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Mon, 09/18/2006 - 19:04
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Greenlady, Thanks so much for keeping us informed!

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Wed, 09/20/2006 - 06:58
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Actually, only 17% of the facilities that had shared equipment labeled for it(247 of 1,454).

Of the 1,207 that did not label, 11% still had VISIBLE residue after cleaning.

Bottom line: For those who are very sensitive, or those who want to get allergen exposure as close to zero as possible, calling the manufacturers to see if the equipment shares lines makes sense.

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Wed, 09/20/2006 - 08:36
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Even more disturbing, 25% (369 out of 1470) of the facilities surveyed were judged to have "cross-contact likely to occur during processing". Out of those, only 31% (113) used advisory labeling! EEK!

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Wed, 09/20/2006 - 15:26
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It was interesting report, good find Greenlady!

I still have to go through and make sense of their percentages...as some above already pointed out --- some of the statements/tables "are a percentage within a minority percentage" and some are even 3rd tier percentages! I haven't had enough time yet to focus on it...

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Sun, 03/11/2007 - 07:57
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Re-raising for the discussion on allergen washing.

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