Acidified Foods; Draft Guidance for Industry; Withdrawal of Draft Guidance

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the withdrawal of a draft guidance for industry, entitled ``Draft Guidance for Industry: Acidified Foods.'' The draft guidance was intended to complement our regulations regarding acidified foods (including regulations for specific current good manufacturing practice, establishment registration, and process filing) by helping commercial food processors determine whether their food products are subject to these regulations by providing for voluntary submission of process filings by processors of non-acidified foods (e.g., some acid foods or fermented foods), and by helping processors of acidified foods in ensuring safe manufacturing, processing, and packing processes and in employing appropriate quality control procedures. We are withdrawing the draft guidance, in part, because many of the topics addressed in the draft guidance are now being addressed in other documents.