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089465 1 (1974-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvlz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /A k~ ~ <~( JUL 3 0 1974 The Honorable Commissioner, Department of Alexander M. Schmidt, M.D. Food and Drug Administration Health, Education, and Welfare Dear Dr. Schmidt: We have recently completed a survey of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) sanitation program for food storage warehouses. During the survey, our representatives accompanied FDA and/or State inspectors on inspections of 22 food storage warehouses in the Seattle and Los Angeles Districts. While the inspection results indicated that the sanitation conditions of the warehouses in most cases were adequate, FDA inspectors detected rodent and bird infestations in two ware- houses in Seattle that resulted in two of the largest food seizures in FDA history. Contaminated food lots were found by FDA at American Wholesale Grocery, a warehouse routinely inspected by FDA, and at Associated Grocers, Inc., a warehouse which the State was responsible for inspecting under FDA contract. The results of our circumstances which led factors impacted on the warehouses. They are: survey and examination into the up to the seizures indicate that certain adequacy of inspections of these two --A need for more specific criteria, guidelines, and/or training to assist inspectors in determining the actions to be taken when indications of possible contamination are noted during inspections. --A need for criteria to establish when follow-up inspections should be performed. --A need for better monitoring of State inspection programs under FDA contract. WMnununuMMammmua MANPOWER AND WELFARE DIVISION UNITED STATEs GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

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