Who’s Going to Pay For New FDA Fees? Join The Club Taxpayers!
Tags: america, examination, FDA, federal register, food, food and drug administration, food safety, import alerts, imports, markets, notice, petition, prices, re-examination, shipment, tax dollars, taxes, taxpayer, united states
On October 1st, 2011, FDA will implement a new fee/examination structure that will radically affect the cost of food importing, food prices and the overall burden on taxpayers. This new structure (tax) will require every significant food import with a questionable food safety issue to be “examined” by FDA and then undergo an expensive re-examination process in order for that shipment to be released; Even if there was no problem with the shipment whatsoever. The reason is because FDA is cleverly defining the first “free examination” as merely data-retrieval. It’s not an examination at all. The real examination … READ MORE
