Just How Broke Could Food Manufacturers Be Next Year? FSMA Reinspection Fees for FY 2013 Give Us A Hint
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently released its Domestic and Foreign Facility Reinspection, Recall, and Importer Reinspection Fee Rates for FY 2013. Under FSMA FDA has the authority to assess and collect fees to cover reinspection-related costs and costs...
Bringing Back Live Forever Juice and the Immortal Unicorns at Natural Products Expo East 2012
In September 2011, the FDAImports.com team launched an incredibly risky/creative project at the Natural Products Expo East event in Baltimore, MD. The project was the now-famous Live Forever Juice brand – a fake juice company with over-the-top labeling claims created...
FDAImports.com and J.O. Alvarez, Inc. to Host Free Food Safety Modernization Act Trainings in Mexico, October 2012
FDAImports.com, in partnership with U.S. Customhouse Broker, J.O. Alvarez, Inc., will be hosting two Food Safety Modernization Act training sessions in Celaya and Monterrey, Mexico this October 16th and 18th respectively (free of charge). The training sessions will...
Countdown to October 1, 2012: New FSMA Biennial FDA Registration for All Food Facilities
It’s almost here. The new biennial FDA registration requirement for foreign and domestic food facilities imposed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) takes effect October 1, 2012. FSMA amended Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) Section 415 by requiring foreign...
FDAImports.com Assists Companies with Prop 65, Safe Cosmetics Act and California Compliance and Litigation Defense in New Irvine, California Office
In addition to its corporate headquarters near Baltimore, Maryland, FDA consulting firm, FDAImports.com has opened another office in Irvine, California in an effort to assist current and future clients with the challenges stemming from California’s unique regulatory...
New Legislation Imposes Document Reviews, Risk-Based Drug Inspections and Increased Drug Listing & Drug Registration Requirements
The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S. 3187) was signed into law by President Obama on July 9th of this year. The Act brings numerous changes for the drug and medical device industry but all of the attention so far has been on the Prescription...
Exhibiting and Presenting at Natural Products Expo Asia 2012 in Hong Kong
The FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn Team will be exhibiting at the 2012 Natural Products Expo Asia in Hong Kong on August 23 – 25, 2012. In addition to exhibiting at one of Asia’s largest natural products events, Rick Quinn, Principal at FDAImports.com will be...
FDAImports.com Gets Chinese Company Removed From FDA Import Alert 53-17, Microbiological Contamination in Cosmetics
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...
Will FDA Meet its July 4 FSMA Deadline? Don’t Hold Your Breath
It’s that time of year again… Time for another FSMA deadline! The pressure is on for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to meet yet another critical date with multiple deadlines imposed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Every 6 months a deadline rolls...
How an FDA Inspection Can Fuel a Consumer Lawsuit
The following is a letter from FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England: As you may know, Diamond Pet Food Processors issued multiple product recalls over the last two months. On April 12, only six days after Diamond's first recall, FDA conducted a weeklong...