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The FCD (Fédération du Commerce et de la Distribution) has published its new specifications for 2024:
Microbiological criteria applicable to distributor brands, first-price brands and raw materials in their initial industrial packaging.
This 2024 version includes the following new features:
- In part 4 - Microbiological analysis methods, the crossed-out section has been removed:
One-box in-house methods are accepted for specific micro-organisms and matrices for which a study has been carried out (and submitted to COFRAC for validation), except for criteria arising from regulation 2073/2005.
- The Listeria monocytogenes criterion has been added to the "olives not subjected to heat treatment" category.
It is set at 100 CFU/g at reception and at distribution BBD/DDM.
- The following comment has been added for sterilised and UHT dairy products:
The UHT treatment is carried out by a treatment sufficient to ensure the microbiological stability of the products after an incubation period of fifteen days at 30°C or seven days at 55°C in a closed container, or after any other method demonstrating that the appropriate heat treatment has been applied (Regulation (EC) No 853/2004).
- Some product names have been changed:
| Categories | Former commodity name | New product name with addition or clarification |
| 2. GROCERY | 7. Dried fruit such as smoked/roasted/ salted seeds and dried fruit such as papaya crisps, bananas, apples, etc. | 7. Dried fruit such as smoked/roasted/ salted seeds, dried fruit such as papaya crisps, bananas, apples and nuts. |
| 2. GROCERY | 8. Soft dried fruit Apricots, prunes, figs, dates, sultanas | 8. Soft (rehydrated) or fleshy (not rehydrated) dried fruit such
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