FDA issued their first Warning Letter to an importer for not complying with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) that was introduced 8 years ago with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). For this first Warning Letter, FDA selected a food importer that...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a critical step towards enforcement of FSVP by creating Import Alert 99-41, "Detention Without Physical Examination of Human and Animal Foods Imported from Foreign Suppliers by Importers Who Are Not in Compliance...
UPDATE 05/14/2019U.S. Customs was directed to resume suspension of liquidation of entries for fresh tomatoes from Mexico effective May 7, 2019. Margin rates for "All Other Growers and /or Exporters" remain at the 1996 preliminary determination level of 17.56%....
It’s been eight years since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law. With that, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started issuing new regulations designed to strengthen the food safety system. At the same time, they took the “educate...
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report that reviewed the steps FDA takes when removing seafood products from import alert. Although FDA intends to conduct a certain amount of sampling or inspections as part of their decision to remove a...
Export lists can be a useful tool for foreign food safety authorities to verify that commodities exported from the United States originate from a trusted source. These lists serve as an unofficial “certification” that the included establishments comply with U.S. food...
Sometimes things take longer than planned and new due dates impact other commitments. That happened to the FDA, but they prevented a regulation from disappearing with just five days to spare. Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations for food go back to...
The FDA has added a new resource to their website: the Data Dashboard, which is aimed to help importers, manufacturers, and processors comply with three separate regulations from the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): the Foreign Supplier Verification Program...
One food safety agency to rule them all? For decades the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has called for a single federal agency to oversee food safety. And now President Trump, through the White House’s “Delivering...
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