On 11/12/2008, FDA issued Import Alert 99-30,
“Detention Without Physical Examination of all Milk Products,
Milk Derived Ingredients and Finished Food Products Containing Milk
from China due to the Presence of Melamine and/or Melamine Analogs”.
The alert can be found at the following link:
http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9930.html
Import Alert 99-30 covers a wide variety of human food and animal food
products that contain milk. Importers should be aware of the products
they import from China and be knowledgeable of the ingredients
contained in those products.
Import Alert 99-30 states that to secure release for detained products,
importers should provide either:
- Results of a third-party laboratory analysis, of a representative sample of the lot, which verifies the product does not contain melamine or cyanuric acid. Third-party laboratories may use any method that is found acceptable to FDA and which meets the method performance of the LC-MS/MS methods available at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/labmeth.html#melamine
- Documentation supplied in English which shows there are no milk or milk-derived ingredients in the product, to include product formulation and product labeling (for example; process or batch records from the manufacturer, and the actual product labeling or a facsimile of the product labeling).