What are United States of America Food and Drug Administration requirements relating to Sanitation?
A – One of the basic purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is protection of the public from products that may be poisonous or deleterious, that are unclean or decomposed, or that have been exposed to insanitary conditions that may contaminate the product with filth or may render it injurious to health. Sanitation provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act go further than to prohibit trade in products that are carriers of disease. This law also requires that foods be produced in sanitary facilities. It prohibits distribution of foods which contain repulsive or offensive matter (filth) consequently of insanitary storage conditions, regardless of whether the food in fact contains filth. Filth includes contaminants such as rat, mouse, and other animal hairs and excreta, whole insects, insect parts and excreta, parasitic worms, pollution from the excrement of humans and animals, as well as other extraneous materials which, because of their repulsiveness, would not
