Personal Injury Law

Nestle Danville Toll House Cookie Dough "483" Posted.

By Bill Marler, Esq.

After inspecting the Danville Plant on 06/18/2009(Thu), 06/19/2009(Fri), 06/22/2009(Mon), 06/23/2009(Tue), 06/24/2009(Wed), 06/25/2009(Thu), 06/26/2009(Fri), 07/07/2009(Tue), 07/08/2009(Wed), and 07/09/2009(Thu), the FDA posts a 1, yes, 1 page "483" online last night, or early this morning - yes, even I sleep sometimes.  Here are the 2, yes, 2 Observations.  Looks like I am heading to Danville soon.

OBSERVATION 1

The workmanship of equipment does not allow proper cleaning.  Specifically, inside the "Toll House" brand cookie dough preparation room, dry ingredients are placed inside hoppers. The dry ingredients are gravity fed to blending mixers through gate valves that are installed on the hoppers. As a result of this investigation, the firm disassembled all gate valves from all hoppers on production lines 8, 10, 11, and 12. The gate valves appear to have food contact surfaces that are not easily cleanable as evidenced by rough, pitted and discolored cast metal alloy.

OBSERVATION 2

Lack of appropriate design to enable manufacturing systems to be maintained in an appropriate sanitary condition. Specifically, as "Toll House" brand cookie dough was mixed on 6-18-09, ice build-up surrounded pipes that transport a processing aid to mixers on production lines 8, 10, 11, and 12. On line 8, condensate from the ice dripped onto a metal rake that personnel then used to scrape cookie dough from the mixer into a dough trough for transport to the filling line.

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Full post as published by Marler Blog on July 11, 2009 (boomark / email).