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The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition [1] detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter", mold, rodent hairs, and insect ...
Sample Ishikawa diagram shows the causes contributing to problem. The defect, or the problem to be solved, [1] is shown as the fish's head, facing to the right, with the causes extending to the left as fishbones; the ribs branch off the backbone for major causes, with sub-branches for root-causes, to as many levels as required.
These levels are set because, according to the FDA, it is unavoidable for some foods to be totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects.
The first established defect action level was created in 1911 for mold in tomato pulp. However, limits for insect fragments and larvae were not added until the 1920s on various fruits and vegetables. In 1938, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was established in the United States to provide a more defined reference based on strict ...
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act; Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938; Federal Meat Inspection Act; The Food Defect Action Levels; Food Safety and Inspection Service; Food Safety News; List of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States
CR noted that the levels of phthalates and a type of bisphenol (bisphenol A, or BPA) in the foods it tested didn't exceed limits set by regulators in the United States and Europe.
Closely related terms are the rejectable quality limit and rejectable quality level (RQL). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In a quality control procedure, a process is said to be at an acceptable quality level if the appropriate statistic used to construct a control chart does not fall outside the bounds of the acceptable quality limits.
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