FDA consulting firm, FDAImports.com, has won another substantial victory for a client on FDA Import Alert, this time for Import Alert 53-17, Detention Without Physical Examination of Cosmetics Due to Microbiological Contamination.  A Chinese company bringing in eye shadow to the United States found themselves on this import alert when their shipment was stopped at a U.S. port.  The charge stated that the product appeared to “contain a poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health.”  The company … READ MORE

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FDAImports.com recently helped a Chinese company obtain the first Green Ticket from FDA Import Alert #99-29, a sweeping and unshakeable Import Alert for Chinese protein products due to the presence of Melamine and/or Melamine Analogs.  This Import Alert traces back to 2007 when thousands of pets in the United States died due to the presence of Melamine in certain pet foods containing contaminated vegetable proteins.  Since FDA could not identify the specific manufacturers of the contaminated vegetable proteins, it created this countrywide Import Alert, leading to the automatic detention of every imported food shipment of these … READ MORE

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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

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