Thank you for your recent email to Horizon Organic®. We appreciate your interest in our products.
Effective
January 1, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required all
food labels to clearly state if the products contain any ingredients
that contain proteins derived from the eight major allergenic foods.
As
a result of the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of
2004 (FALCPA), manufacturers are required to identify the presence of
ingredients that contain protein derived from milk, eggs, fish,
crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, or soybeans in the list
of ingredients.
WhiteWave
Foods is in full compliance with this act and is committed to providing
high-quality foods, while following good manufacturing practices
throughout our production facilities.
Currently
our Horizon Organic® products are manufactured at a variety of
different facilities throughout the United States, due to this we cannot
guarantee certain ingredients are not being stored at each facility.
However,
we take allergenic food concerns seriously, and have instituted
allergen control programs at each facility manufacturing our products.
Our allergen control programs consist of several components, designed to
comprehensively address allergenic food concerns at multiple points of
production. Examples of this program include the following:
1. Supplier control – each ingredient used in production goes through steps to ensure quality and purity.
2. Cleaning procedures – validated procedures to ensure effective clean and rinse is accomplished after each production run.
3. Allergen-free product testing – testing in-process and finished product at frequent intervals to ensure safety.
4. Storage/warehouse – allergen status labeling and isolation of ingredients to ensure no cross-contamination occurs.
5.
Production scheduling - scheduling of product runs are done in a manner
that ensures allergen-containing products are run only after
non-allergen containing products, protecting the immediate subsequent
product from contamination risk.
Food
safety is our highest priority and as part of our commitment to
quality, all employees involved in the manufacturing of Horizon Organic®
have a comprehensive awareness of food allergen concerns.
Thanks again for contacting the Consumer Affairs Department.Sincerely,
Reyna Rivera
Consumer Response Representative
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