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Njaquino

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Posted 14 January 2020 - 04:49 PM

Good Day everyone, 

 

I recently had a customer call in regards to finding dirt particles at the bottom of their plate. They used a marinate. I am trying to find the culprit. I have narrowed it down to two ground ingredients which are predominate in the product, garlic and onion. I know both are ground spice, I ran a filth test. What test can I do on the product or suspected RM?

 

https://www.fda.gov/...levels-handbook

 

Am I approaching this the wrong way? I have gone through our sanitation documents which showed we washed the machine prior to filling, followed by an atp test. 



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Posted 14 January 2020 - 06:54 PM

First and formost, did you see the picture/got sent back the product from this customer that is complaining? Have you made sure it is "dirt" and not something else? 


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Posted 14 January 2020 - 07:26 PM

I received and reviewed a video. 



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Posted 14 January 2020 - 07:27 PM

The customer used up all of the product therefore could not send it back. I pulled a bottle from the lot and it is currently in the lab. It is just deciding what test to have the lab do. 





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