Why didn’t your kids get what they wanted for Christmas?
Why didn’t your tree have candy canes on it?
What happened to your toy cosmetic kits, sunglasses, chocolates and candy?

Answer: Your stuff was all detained at a U.S. port due to:

• Candy canes having undeclared Red 40 in them.

• Chocolates from China being on import alert for melamine.

• Cosmetic kits having glitter in them which FDA suddenly thinks is a color

• Sunglasses having invalid Impact Resistance Certificates

Santa Claus was on his way to deliver these goodies to your children but was … READ MORE

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Adults, children and regulatory compliance officers alike all reeled last week at the news of Santa Nicolas Claus’ arrest by the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Eyewitness cell-phone video emerged immediately following the arrest but now FDAImports.com has obtained additional footage and interviews from an amateur journalist at the scene.  The following 2 video clips provide additional details into Santa’s arrest, conversations with agents, the scene of the crime and numerous interviews with bystanders including Mr. Claus’ attorney, Benjamin England.  Mr. England stated that his firm was doing everything possible to hasten the judicial … READ MORE

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We warned him. We heard the rumors this was coming and sure enough it did.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) teamed up with Homeland Security agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and reportedly arrested Santa Claus tonight as he was out testing a new sleigh configuration in Columbia, MD.  Eyewitness accounts caught the whole event on video, even capturing the agents’ rough treatment of Santa (and his tears) as he was put into the FDA’s special enforcement SUV.  “I saw all this commotion down in the parking lot … READ MORE

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The FDA has recently made public and easily accessible several databases disclosing the results of FDA inspections for companies with compliance issues related to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and results of criminal investigations and debarment actions along with an easy to use warning letter, untitled letter and cyber letter resource.  Although such information has always been available from FDA, it could only be obtained by a written request under the Freedom of Information Act … READ MORE

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Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. might have thought that because the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) enhances food authorities at FDA, that Pharmaceutical manufacturers or importers have escaped unscathed. But this is an unsafe and incorrect assumption. Food is food in FDA’s mind. And at the border FDA tends to think of imported articles in ways to enhance agency power, not to restrict it. So even though the FSMA was passed with a view to increasing food safety, there are areas of concern Pharma companies should watch out for or find themselves … READ MORE

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On January 4, 2011, President Barak Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). The FSMA is an attempt to increase food safety in the U.S.A.; specifically imported food safety. This begins a series of reviews of this new law and some opinion as to what will work, what will not, and what it will mean to foreign food manufacturers and exporters and U.S. food companies of all kinds.

FIRST: What has changed that matters today; right now?  Not much. Almost nothing in the new amendments will go into effect … READ MORE

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