FDA向波士顿ABC食品公司发出警告信：即食河粉与豆腐在不卫生条件下生产被认定掺假
美国食品药品管理局（FDA）向位于马萨诸塞州波士顿的 ABC Food Corp 发出警告信，认定该公司生产的即食河粉与即食豆腐是在不卫生条件下加工、包装和存放的，按《联邦食品、药品和化妆品法》属于「掺假」食品。警告信于 2026 年 10 月 5 日发出，11 月 10 日在 FDA 网站公布。
FDA 在 2026 年 3 月 17 日至 4 月 7 日对该公司位于波士顿 Atkinson 街 99 号的工厂进行了检查。该公司生产即食米粉（河粉）和即食豆腐。检查发现，该公司从未对任何产品做过书面的危害分析，也没有针对多项已知风险建立预防性控制措施。
FDA 指出，该公司的切片河粉采用减氧包装，肉毒杆菌和蜡样芽孢杆菌在冷却和冷藏环节滋生并产生毒素的风险没有被评估和控制；检查人员 3 月 17 日实测，几批河粉在冷库中约 5 小时仅从华氏 76 度降到 62 至 66 度，冷却速度严重不足，公司也不监测冷藏库温度。检查还发现，河粉加工环节的温度与时间参数未经验证，杀菌效果没有验证研究支持。
卫生方面的问题同样突出：消毒剂浓度实测与公司自家规程不符，清洗后设备食品接触面上仍残留河粉；多名员工在接触地面物品后未洗手、未换手套就直接处理即食豆腐。此外，公司河粉配料中含有过敏原成分，却没有书面的过敏原控制程序。
该公司曾于 4 月 28 日就检查意见作出书面回复，但 FDA 在警告信中表示仍有持续担忧，要求公司纠正上述问题。警告信并不等同于召回，目前没有该公司产品致病的报告。（来源：美国食品药品管理局）
FDA Warns Boston's ABC Food Corp: Ready-to-Eat Rice Noodles and Tofu Deemed Adulterated After Inspection
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to ABC Food Corp of Boston, Massachusetts, determining that the company's ready-to-eat rice noodles and ready-to-eat tofu were prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions and are adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The letter, addressed to President and Co-Owner Stephanie D. Lin, was issued on October 5, 2026, and posted on the FDA website on November 10.
FDA inspected the company's facility at 99 Atkinson Street in Boston from March 17 through April 7, 2026. The firm manufactures ready-to-eat rice noodles and tofu. Investigators found that the company had never conducted or documented a hazard analysis for any of its foods and had established no preventive controls for several known hazards.
According to the letter, the company's Ho Foon Cut rice noodles are sold in reduced-oxygen packaging, yet the risk of Clostridium botulinum and Bacillus cereus growth and toxin formation during cooling and cold storage was never evaluated or controlled. On March 17, investigators observed several batches of noodles cool only from 76°F to between 62°F and 66°F over roughly five hours in the freezer, and the company does not monitor the temperature of its refrigerated cooler. A key processing step was also found to be unvalidated: the noodle mixture entered at 57°F and exited after 56 seconds at 149°F, with no validation study showing the process destroys vegetative pathogens.
Sanitation failures were also cited: sanitizer was measured at about 100 ppm, contrary to the firm's own written procedure; residual noodles were left on food-contact surfaces after cleaning; and several employees handled ready-to-eat tofu without washing hands or changing gloves after touching floor items. The firm also had no written allergen controls even though its noodle products contain an allergenic ingredient.
The company responded to the inspection findings on April 28, 2026, but FDA said concerns remain and directed the firm to correct the violations. A warning letter is not a recall, and no illnesses linked to the company's products have been reported. (Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
来源：美国食品药品管理局
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