October 27, 2009

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Office of Policy and Program Development

5601 Sunnyside Ave

Beltsville, MD 20705-5271

Mr. Brock Lundberg

Vice President of Technology

Fiberstar Inc.

713 St. Croix Street

River Falls, WI 54022

 

Dear Mr. Lundberg

This letter is in response to your notification (Log# 09-ING-0449-N-A), dated July 28, 2009, requesting a no objection letter from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for the use of Citri-Fi® products as binders in meat and poultry products. Specifically, you are requesting the use of three Citri-Fi products (i.e. Citri-Fi 100, Citri-Fi 100FG, or Citri-Fi100M40), that contain only dried orange pulp, to be used in non-standardized whole muscle meat and poultry products where standards of identity permit the use of binders. The levels of Citri-Fi products would not exceed 3.5% of the product formulation.

You stated that the only difference among the three Citri-Fi products is their particle size, i.e., Citri-Fi 100 is a minus 30 mesh product, Citri-Fi 100FG is a minus 100 mesh product, and Citri-Fi 100M40 is a minus 200 mesh product.

FSIS has completed its review of you submitted information and has no objection to the use of Citri-Fi 100, Citri-Fi 100FG, or Citri-Fi 100M40 in non-standardized whole muscle meat and poultry products where binders are permitted and standardized whole muscle meat and poultry products where standards of identity permit the use of binders. The levels of these three products would not exceed 3.5% of the product formulation. However, these products must be included in the ingredient label of the meat and poultry products they are used in.

 

Sincerely,

John M. Hicks Jr., DVM, MPH

Director, Risk and Innovations Management Division

Office of Policy and Program Development