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[TimG]

Anyone been watching the ever-expanding voluntary recalls from the California Dairies milk powder voluntary recall? It amazes me the impact some of these bulk products have on so many every day snacks when they get recalled. Ghirardelli chocolate mixes, potato chips, nut mixes..

[Scampi]

By-products from dairy are one the most utilized products in the food manufacturing arena, second I'm sure only to sugar as an ingredient

 

Sour cream and onion chips?  Dairy 

Cream condensed soups? Dairy

Pretzel seasoning? Dairy

Pre marinated meat? Dairy

pudding cup? Dairy powder

Hot chocolate powder? Dairy

 

 It has a particularly wide range of applications in the confectionery industry, namely for chocolate, toffee and caramel confections, modern ice cream, milk beverages, toppings and icings, recipe dishes, infant formula, breakfast cereals, soups and sauces, bakery products and coffee whiteners.

[jfrey123]

Seconding Scampi's point. My wife suffers from violent gastrointestinal reactions to dairy, well beyond what mere lactose intolerance causes in people but not quite an anaphylactic reaction or hives.  The amount of tasty high processed items that randomly contain milk powder catches us off guard constantly and we're always reading for allergen warnings on dairy.  They seem to use it almost as a sugar substitute in many things, pre-made seasoning flavors being one of the ones that caught us most off guard.  Several brands of "lemon pepper" utilize it, as we found out the hard way.  Random flavors of potato chips, like even bbq, yep used in there too.

[GMO]

Agree with Scampi's excellent point. Back in the day, some dairy by products, like whey were used as animal feed. Then some bright spark realised that it has value as a protein source (especially, at the time for body builders) and a new industry was born. Then loads of side uses either just to increase protein, for mouth feel or to substitute for something else.

 

In some ways it's good, it preserves more food for people's consumption which for milk is better than wasting it or going to pigs. That's good for the environment. In other ways it's bad, especially for those with allergies and if it replaces a vegetable based alternative.

[MDaleDDF]

One of my two recalls in the last 20 years was a milk supplier sending me an email telling me their ingredient was being recalled due to salmonella I think?  I forget.   But it was an absolute nightmare to deal with.   When I saw this one I about isht myself, and was very happy to find out we don't deal with them...

This is one of the things I find funny about my COA hold program.   We go through and make sure the COA is clean for everything, but the COA was clean on the one that got recalled.   I told my last auditor, this is stupid.   Nobody is ever going to send me a COA that says YUP!   There's salmonella in this, but we just shipped it to you anyway with a positive test on the COA!   Lol..... 

 

Whateva....

[CaptainCalzone]

It's been an interesting topic of debate regarding the (assumed) reasoning behind it - it appears the FDA is moving away from industry practice regarding sanitation after pathogen events and is requiring manufacturers to perform more frequent full tear down sanitation breaks.  Product flushes in combination with finished product and vectored environmental testing without a full sanitizing treatment are also no longer being considered as suitable remediation.  

 

It was issued in a draft guidance but unfortunately never fully communicated to the manufacturers. https://www.fda.gov/...human-foods-and

[Tony-C]

Anyone been watching the ever-expanding voluntary recalls from the California Dairies milk powder voluntary recall? It amazes me the impact some of these bulk products have on so many every day snacks when they get recalled. Ghirardelli chocolate mixes, potato chips, nut mixes..

 

Hi TimG

 

Back in the old days I was Technical Manager of one of the largest multi-product dairy sites in the UK. The product range included fresh milk, UHT products, shakes, cream, concentrates, butter, SMP, WMP, BMP & CMR.

 

As well as retailer demands, for the ingredients business I had a seemingly endless list of customers and as a consequence requests for information and requests for audits. This is why I am so pro GFSI, and Food Safety Management System Certification Schemes. Certification doesn't stop customer audits but it certainly reduces them.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tony