Topic 04

Sources / Authority Basis

Authority basis for the choices

This page distinguishes authority guidance from our own recipe choices. Authority guidance supports hygiene, cooling, refrigerator temperature, the honey warning for infants and dental-health advice. The temperatures used in our preserving final processing are our recipe choice, informed by technical juice/hot-fill background, but are not presented as a validated commercial process.

Technical background – not an authority instruction for our home kitchen: FDA guidance provides an example of commercial juice being heat-treated around 90 °C and hot-filled around 85 °C. We use this only as technical background for our chosen temperatures. Our recipe is not laboratory-validated, not shelf-stable and must remain refrigerated.