The Maryland China Business Council held it’s 17th annual New Year’s Banquet last week at Hunan Manor restaurant in Columbia, MD.  Team members from the FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn team attended the event along with MCBC leaders and members and representatives from the Chinese embassy.

“This year’s Maryland-China Business Council Chinese New Year Banquet had to have been one of our all-time best,” said Steven Drake, President of MCBC.  “We had an interesting mix of business, academic and political leaders drawn together by their interest in China.  Remarks … READ MORE

ExportToUsa.com.cn, the Chinese branch of FDAImports.com, was recently featured in China Seafood Magazine answering questions regarding imports, registrations, facilities, import alerts and the Food Safety Modernization Act.  The 3 page Q/A was developed by the team at FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn to provide simple explanations of FDA regulations for Chinese seafood manufacturers and exporters.  Some of the questions answered in the article were:

Q: What is a U.S. Agent for? 

Q: What do I do … READ MORE

Shelly Li, Regulatory Specialist at the Qingdao, China branch of FDAImports.com (ExportToUsa.com.cn), has arrived in the Baltimore/Washington area for a month of business development and training alongside Benjamin England, Founder and CEO of FDAImports.com and the entire Columbia, Maryland team.  Ms. Li has been Regulatory Specialist at the Chinese branch of the firm since October of 2010 and has helped advance the firm’s presence in China through trade shows, marketing, communications, content development and training events in Shanghai, … READ MORE

Benjamin England, Founder and CEO of FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn, presented on Food and Drug Regulation and Importing Requirements along with Rick Quinn, Principal at the firm, to a delegation of Chinese Food and Drug officials from the Hubei Province this week at a special training event in Chantilly, VA.  The training event addressed the legal requirements for regulating and importing food and drugs into the United States with special attention given to Chinese products and the FDA Food Safety … READ MORE

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been using social media for over a year now and has expanded and built-out its channels to include Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr.  Below are some statistics on the agency’s social media channels and engagement in 2011.  (As of 1.5.2012)   For more on the FDA and social media please read our other related blog, “What Does American Think of the FDA?”

 
Facebook Page
18,346 likes

101 posts in 2011

22 Average comments per post in 2011

Most commented … READ MORE

The FDA, like most other government agencies, has moved past its previous reticence and launched fully into the world of social media.  The FDA now has a Facebook page, multiple Twitter accounts, a YouTube channel and Flickr account, linking to each of them from every page on its voluminous website.  The fact that a government agency would embrace social networking tools created by a horde of tech-savvy 20-somethings from California is stunning in and of itself, but … READ MORE

Myth #1:  If FDA tests/rejects something then there must be a problem with it The FDA tests things all the time, even if there is not a problem with the shipment. The FDA uses Import Alerts, which are country or industry-wide notices that flag shipments due to prior problems, even if the problem does not actually appear in the current shipment. The FDA refuses countless shipments which might be just fine simply because they come from a region that is on Import Alert. This occurs because FDA … READ MORE