Rick D. Quinn (FDAImports) (Columbia, MD)
President Barack Obama signed into law the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”) on January 4, 2011. FSMA is the greatest expansion of FDA’s food regulatory authority since the enactment in 1938 of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.
FSMA enlarges FDA’s power to regulate the safety procedures domestically and internationally for the producing, manufacturing, packing, storing and transporting of food. Also FSMA provides FDA with new powers to regulate food imports by increasing FDA’s ability to inspect foreign and domestic facilities, increasing FDA’s enforcement powers (including broadening FDA’s administrative detention powers and FDA’s ability to obtain information) and granting FDA the authority to issue mandatory recalls.
On February 3, 2011 Benjamin L. England presented a detailed Webinar regarding the changes of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Now we have made it available for any who wasn’t able to join us! Click Here to view Mr. England’s presentation.
Coming soon we will be posting short sections of the Webinar, broken down by topic. This way you will be able to navigate quickly through the areas of relevance to your company.
