ACS recently contacted William Correll, Director of the Office of Compliance for FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), seeking clarification on an issue of concern to our members — permissible levels of non-toxigenic E. coli in raw milk cheese.
ACS sought to understand:
- Why proposed permissible levels for non-toxigenic E. coli were changed, and explanatory language regarding raw milk cheeses was removed, from FDA's 2009 Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) draft to the final 2010 CPG.
- What scientific data and/or correlation exists between the presence of non-toxigenic E. coli and the incidence of pathogens in cheese overall, and how that data supports the determination of allowable limits.
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