During the 2020 biennial renewal period, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring food facilities to include a unique facility identifier (UFI) on their registration. The required UFI must be a DUNS number obtained through a third-party company,...
On Tuesday, April 19, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance titled Evaluating the Public Health Importance of Food Allergens Outside of the Official List of Major Food Allergens Listed in the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act,...
Did you know that your imported entry of food can be refused admission into the United States if it appears that you failed to comply with the requirements of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP)? Over the course of the last five years, FDA’s mantra has...
Alcoholic beverages are an area of equal, albeit for somewhat separate reasons, interest for both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). By law, FDA has jurisdiction over “any article used as food or drink for man or other animals.”...
Update 06/03/2022: The next food facility registration renewal period begins October 1st and continues through December 31st. In preparation for this upcoming renewal season, FDA recently began validating the UFI status of existing registrations. The information...
It has been nearly five years since FDA began inspections under the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) regulations. Based on inspectional data from FDA’s Data/Compliance Dashboard for the last three years (2019-2022...
Chairperson of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), recently sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Robert Califf, insisting on action following a report from Politico...
Update 06/03/2022: The next food facility registration renewal period begins October 1st and continues through December 31st. In preparation for this upcoming renewal season, FDA recently began validating the UFI status of existing registrations. The information...
In July and August of 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the revocation of the Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for Gravity Diagnostics, LLC for the Gravity Diagnostics COVID-19 Assay, Materials and Machines Corporation of America for the...
In March of this year, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) branch of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented a new fee under the OTC Monograph User Fee Program (OMUFA). The fee was required of all facilities that produced OTC monograph drugs...
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