{"id":203,"date":"2023-04-17T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/?p=203"},"modified":"2023-04-17T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:25:17","slug":"low-acid-canned-food-and-acidified-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/2023\/04\/17\/low-acid-canned-food-and-acidified-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Acid Canned Food and Acidified Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Low-acid canned foods are foods with a finished equilibrium pH greater than 4.6 and a<br \/>water activity greater than 0.85, excluding tomatoes and tomato products having<br \/>a finished equilibrium pH less than 4.7. They are processed at high<br \/>temperatures in airtight containers to prevent contamination &amp; growth of<br \/>harmful bacteria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">An acidified food is a low-acid food to which acid ingredients are added and which<br \/>has a finished equilibrium pH of 4.6 or below and a water activity greater than<br \/>0.85. This makes the food more acidic and creates an environment that is<br \/>unfavorable for the growth of microorganisms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdahelp.us\/acidified-and-low-acid-canned-foods.html\">Low-acid canned foods &amp; Acidified foods<\/a> are regulated by the US FDA and<br \/>manufacturers and processors must follow strict guidelines for processing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdahelp.us\/fda-label-review.html\">labeling<\/a> these<br \/>products. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Manufacturers and processors of Low-acid canned foods &amp; Acidified foods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdahelp.us\/fda-food-registration.html\">must register with FDA<\/a><br \/>as a food facility, submit a Food Canning Establishment Registration &amp;<br \/>process filing of such products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">FDA FCE (food canning establishment registration) is a process by which facilities<br \/>that engage in the commercial processing and packing of acidified and low-acid<br \/>canned foods must register with the US FDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdahelp.us\/\">Liberty Management Group Ltd.<\/a> can help you with Food Facility Registration, FCE, label compliance and other FDA regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Namrata <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Regulatory Consultant<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-style: normal\">support@libertymanagement.us<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdahelp.us\"><span style=\"font-style: normal\">www.fdahelp.us<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-acid canned foods are foods with a finished equilibrium pH greater than 4.6 and awater activity greater than 0.85, excluding tomatoes and tomato products havinga finished equilibrium pH less than 4.7. They are processed at hightemperatures in airtight containers to prevent contamination &amp; growth ofharmful bacteria. An acidified food is a low-acid food to which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/2023\/04\/17\/low-acid-canned-food-and-acidified-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Low Acid Canned Food and Acidified Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,65,2,66,4],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acidified-foods","tag-fce","tag-fda-registration","tag-lacf","tag-low-acid-canned-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymanagement.us\/fda-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}