Okeechobee Times

Stone Crabs, Inc. in Miami Beach, Florida was inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 10 for foodborne biological hazards and received eight citations, according to data posted on the FDA’s official website.

The FDA website indicates that the citations were delivered to the company as follows:

'You did not implement the monitoring procedures listed in your HACCP plan.'

'Your HACCP plan does not list one or more critical control points that are necessary for each of the identified food safety hazards.'

'Your HACCP plan lists monitoring procedures and frequencies that do not ensure compliance with the critical limit.'

'Your HACCP plan includes a corrective action plan that is not in accordance with 21 CFR 123.7(b) to ensure the cause of the deviation was corrected.'

'Your verification procedures do not include, at a minimum, ongoing verification activities including review of consumer complaints and calibration of process monitoring instruments.'

'Your process monitoring equipment is not calibrated to ensure that it reads accurately.'

'You are not monitoring the sanitation conditions and practices with sufficient frequency to assure conformance with Current Good Manufacturing Practices including protection of food, food packaging material, and food contact surfaces from adulteration.'

'You are not maintaining sanitation control records that document monitoring and corrections of sanitation deficiencies for safety of water that comes into contact with food or food contact surfaces, including water used to manufacture ice, condition and cleanliness of food contact surfaces, prevention of cross-contamination from insanitary objects, maintenance of hand washing, hand sanitizing, and toilet facilities, protection of food, food packaging material, and food contact surfaces from adulteration, proper labeling, storage and use of toxic chemicals, control of employee health conditions and exclusion of pests.'

The FDA routinely inspects facilities across the nation to determine if the workplaces and their products are compliant with FDA-regulated laws and regulations implemented to improve overall public health. Inspection results are then disclosed publicly for businesses to consistently make smarter business decisions for the future.

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