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Product Specification: The Most Important Document in Food Manufacturing

The Food Law Firm

A specification, also known as a “spec,” is a detailed document outlining the specific requirements and standards that a supplier must meet to provide raw materials, ingredients, or copacked products to a buyer. Objective language should always be used throughout the document.

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Product Specifications: The Critical Document for a Food Business

The Food Law Firm

The “product specification” is the most critical document to a food business. A specification, also known as a “spec,” is a detailed document outlining the specific requirements and standards that a supplier must meet to provide raw materials, ingredients, or copacked products to a buyer.

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FDA Relaxes Nutrition Facts and Menu Labeling Requirements for Restaurants and Food Manufacturers During COVID-19 Emergency

Modern Restaurant Management

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two temporary food labeling guidance documents that attempt to balance industry supply and demand during the novel coronavirus pandemic. allergen information required by the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.

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FDA: Another infant death likely linked to Abbott formula

Bill Marler

Department of Justice on behalf of the FDA, the government alleges that powdered infant formula products manufactured at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis facility were adulterated because they were made under insanitary conditions and in violation of current good manufacturing practice requirements. Here is the complaint – abbott_complaint_0.

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Mr. Abbott, you are going to jail for manufacturing tainted infant formula

Bill Marler

Here is the most recent inspection report at the plant – APPLIED – FOI II – BR Abbott Nutritions- FEI# 1815692 9-2021 EIR. Here are the whistleblower documents – Redacted Confidential Disclosure re Abbott Laboratories – 10-19-2021_Redacted (1). QS staff never knew with certainty if an affected pallet was retrieved. .

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Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions

Bill Marler

However, the resulting investigation and inspection (and whistleblower documents) uncovered enough problems in the Abbott facility to shutter it causing havoc with supplies of infant formula. Here are the key documents: Here is the 2021 inspection report at the plant – APPLIED – FOI II – BR Abbott Nutritions- FEI# 1815692 9-2021 EIR.

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OIG to determine whether FDA followed the inspections and recall process for infant formula in accordance with Federal requirements by 2023?

Bill Marler

However, the resulting investigation and inspection (and whistleblower documents) uncovered enough problems in the Abbott facility to shutter it causing havoc with supplies of infant formula. Here are the key documents: Here is the 2021 inspection report at the plant – APPLIED – FOI II – BR Abbott Nutritions- FEI# 1815692 9-2021 EIR.

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