For years Benjamin England of FDAImports.com LLC has argued that FDA improperly treats import alerts as automatic detentions and wildly throws around its authority when the agency finds what it calls the "appearance" of a violation of FDA law from evidence other than...
On September 11th 2011, Cargill recalled an additional 185,000 pounds of ground turkey citing a potential contamination risk of Salmonella Heidelberg. This recall follows the previous massive recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey products on August 3rd. In...
Question: What’s worse than driving a stolen car around town? Answer: Not knowing that you’re driving a stolen car! If you know something horrible is about to happen, you can prepare for it. But it’s a whole different story when something bad is about to happen to...
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...
“My six year old daughter loves the classic story of a faithful and kind old elephant who has the ears to hear the sound of a very small person swirling through the space flotsam and jetsam on the surface of a small speck of dust – to the chagrin of a sour kangaroo...
In our August 11 blog post, we alerted our readers to new fees that FDA will begin extracting from food importers and foreign food manufacturers at $224 per hour ($335/hour for foreign travel). FDA will charge the new fees whenever FDA “re-examines” imported food it...
Are you a cosmetics manufacturer or importer bringing in product to the United States? The FDA is serious about regulating cosmetics, especially when it comes to color additives (see chart). Make sure you’re not making one of these common mistakes when it comes to...
36 million pounds of ground turkey. That’s a ton of meat, 18,000 tons of meat to be precise. That’s the weight of 120 million brand-new iphones (without the box). So if almost everyone in Japan bought an iphone-4 today and then put them all on a scale, that’s how...
Can you spell “ex-am-in-ation”? Even if you can spell it, can you define it? If you can’t then you won’t have any surprises this fall while you’re importing food to the USA. If you can correctly define what an “examination” is then you’d better sit down before you...
FDA re-posted its Import Refusal Report on its website, as we reported in March. For each refused-entry, FDA gives the manufacturer’s name and address, the importer’s product description, and FDA’s rationale for the refusal, along with other information. FDA, like...
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