U.S. Food and drug administration warns Amazon’s Entire Foods Market place for misbranding food items

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Food and drug administration) mentioned on Tuesday it has issued a warning letter to Amazon.com Inc’s Full Foodstuff Current market for not labeling some products for the presence of food items allergens, which led to a collection of product remembers.

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The supermarket chain, which was acquired by Amazon in 2017 for $13.7 billion, has recalled extra than 30 food products and solutions in the past 12 months as the presence of main food items allergens was not outlined on product labels, the agency said.

The goods were predominantly from the deli and bakery sections of the shop, the Fda claimed. (http://bit.ly/3nN1fSU)

Complete Food items is responsible for investigating and deciding the brings about of the violations determined and for blocking their recurrence, the Fda reported in the letter issued to the company on Dec. 16.

The company mentioned the enterprise should answer within just 15 operating times from receipt of the letter, listing out in creating the actions it is using to deal with the violations.

“We are doing work intently with the Food and drug administration to make certain all procedures and processes in our shops satisfy if not exceed food stuff basic safety specifications,” Whole Foodstuff stated in an emailed assertion.

(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru Modifying by Krishna Chandra Eluri)