USA Gov. Import Alert 'Vanilla'

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The page opened for me.IA #28-07, REVISED 1/30/98 - IMPORT ALERT #28-07,

" DETENTION

WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF COUMARIN IN VANILLA

PRODUCTS EXTRACTS - FLAVORINGS - IMITATIONS) " ,

ATTACHMENT REVISED 2/16/05

 

Note: this import alert is being revised to reflect current alert

format and add an attachment for firm(s)/product(s) identified

for detention without physical examination.

 

TYPE OF ALERT: Detention without physical examination

 

(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance

to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or

product at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or

on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public.)

 

PRODUCT : Vanilla Product(s) (Extracts - Flavorings -

Imitations)

 

PRODUCT CODE : As identified on the attachment to the alert

 

PROBLEM : Coumarin contamination - poisonous or deleterious

substance - (OASIS charge code = coumarin)

 

PAC FOR

COLLECTION : 09006

 

PAF : FAD

 

COUNTRY : All

 

MANUFACTURER/

SHIPPER : As identified on the attachment to the alert

 

 

CHARGE : " The article is subject to refusal of admission

pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears

to bear or contain (Coumarin), a poisonous or

deleterious substance, which may render it

injurious to health [Adulteration, Section

402(a)(1)]. " (OASIS charge code = Coumarin)

 

RECOMMENDING

OFFICE : DIOP, HFC-172

 

REASON FOR

ALERT : Coumarin in Mexican Vanilla has been a recurring

problem for quite sometime. Coumarin has been

prohibited in food in the U.S. since 1940 (See CFR

Part 189.130), (189.130(b) Food containing any

added coumarin as such or as a constituent of

tonka beans or tonka extract is deemed to be

adulterated under the act).

 

A talk paper T84-17, 3/8/84, and October, 1993,

article " Mexican Coumarin No Bargain " in the FDA

Consumer have been written regarding this problem.

These products are often labeled in Spanish

" Extracto de vanilla " or " Vainilla " .

 

An attachment to this alert will be updated, as

needed, listing manufacturer(s) and product(s)

which are found to contain coumarin.

 

GUIDANCE : Districts may detain without physical examination

all vanilla product(s) from the identified

manufacturer(s) on the attachment to this import

alert.

 

For questions or issues concerning science,

science policy, sample collection, analysis,

preparation, or analytical methodology, contact

the Division of Field Science at (301) 443-3320 or

3007.

 

PRIORITIZATION

GUIDANCE : I

 

FOI : No purging required.

 

KEYWORDS : Coumarin, Vanilla, Tonka Beans, Tonka Extract

 

PREPARED BY : George N. Butler, HFC-172, DIOP, 301-443-6553

 

DATE LOADED

INTO FIARS : January 30, 1998

 

Attachment to Import Alert 28-07 - 2/16/05

Manufacturers subject to " DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL

EXAMINATION OF COUMARIN IN VANILLA PRODUCTS (EXTRACT -

FLAVORINGS - IMITATIONS) "

 

 

FIRM: PRODUCT/CODE

 

Centro Dominicano de Promocion Vanilla Extract/28C--51

Plaza de la Independcia

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

FEI# 1000290693

 

 

Industrias Alimenticias - Vanilla flavoring

Dona Tina 28C51

Las Brisas Casa No. H-149 01/12/00

Managua, Nicaragua

FEI# 3002901227

 

Jean Raphael Lamarque Vanilla Extract/28C--51

Rue Macajou 3 10/19/04

Port Au Prince

Haiti

FEI# 3003942570

 

Juan Miguel Anazaldula Vanilla Extract - Danncy Pure

Gutierrez Vanilla Brand/28C51

Juarez No. 1101-A 7/14/98

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Mexico

FEI #3001655129

 

Julio A. Nunez - Vanilla extract

ESI/Almacaribe, Inc. 28C51

Calle Proyecto No. 10 5/16/00

Urb. Moises

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

FEI# 3002691881

 

P.A. Benjamin Manufacturing Co.,Ltd. Artificial Vanilla

95-97 East Street Flavoring

Kingston, Jamaica 45L99

FEI #7917 9/15/98

 

Serrana Agroindustrial Vanilla Extract

Juan de Morfa # 93 28C- - 51

Santo Domingo, DO 5/14/02

FEI # 3003154904

 

 

 

Vanilla Mex (Jose Fco. Mendoza Ordonez) Artificial

Calle Sierra Morena No. 1001-C Vanilla flavored

Colonia Las Puentes 8 Sector concentrate

Codigo Postal 66460 28C51

San Nicolas de Los Garza, Mexico 28M04

FEI # 3004796827 02/16/05

 

 

Xiame S.A. de C.V. Vanilla Extract

Agustin Olachea No. 151 28C- - 51

Col. Adolfo Lopez Mateos 8/8/02

Deleg. Venustiano Carranza

Mexico, D.F., Mexico CP 15670

FEI #3003687015