Down East Times

There was one company in a city associated with Washington County that received FDA citations as a result of one inspection conducted in the county over the second quarter of 2024, according to reports from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This is an increase over the number of companies cited in the previous quarter.

The citations in the county include:

• You did not implement your sanitation preventive control procedures.
• Your written sanitation preventive control procedures were not appropriate to significantly minimize or prevent the hazard requiring a preventive control.
• Your written supply-chain program does not provide assurance that a hazard requiring a supply-chain-applied control has been significantly minimized or prevented.

The company cited should take a voluntary action to correct its managing operations.

The FDA routinely inspects facilities across the nation to determine if the workplace and their products are compliant with FDA-regulated laws and regulations implemented to improve overall public health. Inspection results are then disclosed publicly.

The FDA is a government agency that is primarily responsible for monitoring the production and distribution of human and animal drugs, biological products, medical supplies and tobacco products for safety quality, according to its website.

Company Name	Area of Business	Inspection Date	Issue Cited
Cherryfield Foods, Inc.	Food and Cosmetics	05/09/2024	Sanitation preventive controls - Implement
Cherryfield Foods, Inc.	Food and Cosmetics	05/09/2024	Sanitation preventive controls - Appropriate (Adequate)
Cherryfield Foods, Inc.	Food and Cosmetics	05/09/2024	Supply-chain program - Assurance (Adequate)