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Your water is an ingredient. Your records probably don't treat it like one.
Compliance PublishedSep 22, 2026 AuthorFourFoxes Team

Your water is an ingredient. Your records probably don't treat it like one.

You track every pepper lot. Then you turn on the tap, and the biggest input by volume goes in with no record. Water that touches food must be safe and of adequate sanitary quality (21 CFR 117.37(a)), and your hazard analysis has to account for it. Here's how to record water as the traceable input it is.