Allergen Alley
The term refers to the major group of common food allergens recognized in the United States.
What is the Big Nine?
To be issued to the owner, operator, or agent in charge when conducting official business (i.e. routine inspections, sample collections, consumer complaints).
What is the Notice of Inspection?
The acronym cGMP's stands for.
What is the current Good Manufacturing Practices?
This massive facility in Maxton, North Carolina, produces millions of cans a day famously known for the catchy slogan "M'm! M'm! Good!"
What is Campbell's Soup?
This environmental pathogen is the primary target in refrigerated RTE foods due to its ability to grow at refrigeration temperatures.
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
Walnuts, pecans, almonds, and cashews fall under this allergen classification.
What is Tree nuts?
This form is used to record findings and report objectionable conditions noted during and inspection or investigation.
What is the Observation Sheet?
True or False: A food is deemed adulterated if it has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health.
What is True?
In 1898, pharmacist Caleb Bradham renamed his signature "Brad's Drink" to this global beverage brand in New Bern, North Carolina.
What is Pepsi?
A common group of natural toxins that include aflatoxin, fumonisin, vomitoxin, ochratoxin, and patulin.
What is mycotoxins?
In 2023, this tiny seed became the 9th major allergen required to be labeled on packaged foods in the United States.
What is sesame?
To stop the sale or movement of adulterated or misbranded products.
What is Embargo?
In North Carolina, refrigerated smoke fish must be held at what temperature?
What is 38oF or below?
Founded in 1930 in downtown Winston-Salem during the Great Depression and is known for their thin crisp Moravian cookies.
What is Dewey's Bakery?
This rod-shaped microorganism can survive for years in low moisture environments like peanut butter, spices, and flour.
What is Salmonella?
The unintentional incorporation of a food allergen into a food.
What is allergen cross contact?
This form is used to summarize the details of an inspection.
What is the Report Coversheet?
The pH value of 4.6 is important because it is the limiting factor for the growth of this extremely dangerous microorganism?
What is Clostridium Botulinum?
Headquartered in Rose Hill, North Carolina, this family-owned operation is the nation's oldest and largest muscadine winery, famous for its sweet southern wines like Hatteras Red.
What is Duplin Winery?
A measure of the free or unbound water in food that is available to support microbial growth and is expressed as aw.
What is water activity?
There are two ways allergens can be declared on a food label: either within the main ingredient list or in this specific keyword statement immediately following it.
What is a "Contains" statement?
Used to identify embargoed products and reinforces that the product is under embargo and the movement or disposal of the embargoed products is not permitted without permission.
What is the Embargo Red Tag?
This federal law, signed in 2011 transformed the nation's food safety system by shifting the focus to preventing foodborne illness rather than responding after contamination occurs.
What is the Food Safety Modernization Act?
This North Carolina based grocery store topped USA Today's 10 Best grocery store rankings for the second year in a row.
What is The Fresh Market?
The requested analysis entered on a sample transcript for analyzing ice.
What is Micro and Microanalytical?