date:Jun 17, 2014
ew York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
The New York officials were asking FDA to clarify its position on wooden shelving after an artisan cheese producer in the state had been told that she should replace her wooden shelving with another material after consecutive FDA inspections found Listeria monocytogenes contamination on the shelves.
Metz emailed a document to the officials stating that wooden shelving did not conform to current good manufacturing practices, which require mat