Will Prop 65 Kill Off BPA Forever? Second Time’s a Charm
California’s Prop 65 monster must be fed and this time it has set its hungry sights on BPA, the notorious chemical used in the production of plastics and epoxy resins for food and drink packaging. If listed, companies using BPA should consider phasing out their...
Benjamin England to Moderate Food Safety Panel on FSVP and VQIP at 2013 Food and Drug Law Institute Food Week
FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England, will present and moderate at the “FSVP and VQIP: Mandatory and Voluntary” panel discussion at the 2013 Food Week event put on by the Washington DC-based Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI). The session will examine the...
FDA’s “Mixed (Up) Type” Food Facilities? Changes Coming to FDA’s Food Facility Registration for Farms Under FSMA
Watch out dictionary lovers and English majors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to make your head spin. In its recent proposed rule for the Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Control (HARPC) requirements under FSMA, FDA spent numerous...
FDA Warning Letter Shows FDA Already Acting Under FSMA Produce Safety Proposed Rule
A recently published FDA Warning Letter to a cantaloupe farm reveals FDA’s use of the principles found in its new Proposed Rule for Standards of Produce Safety, recently issued on January 4, 2013 under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The Warning Letter,...
Benjamin England to Present on FDA and Customs Issues for Healthcare Products at Consumer Healthcare Products Association Logistics Meeting
FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England, will present on FDA and Customs issues for importing and exporting consumer healthcare products at the Logistics Steering Committee Meeting of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association in Washington, DC. The...
FDA’s Proposed Changes to current Good Manufacturing Practices for Foods Rearrange Old Rules While Imposing Important New Requirements and New Costs
On Friday, January 4, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a Proposed Rule which proposed revisions to the current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMPs”) requirements for foods along with proposing the regulation for Hazard Analysis and...
Proposed Regulatory Standards for Produce Safety Under FSMA: FDA Begins to Regulate Farms
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), for the first time in its history, formally entered into regulating how food is grown and harvested by proposing standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce on farms. The Food Safety...
FDA Publishes Proposed HARPC Rules: Food Facilities Take Note!
On January 4, 2013, FDA published its proposed Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls (“HARPC”) regulations for food facilities, exactly one year after it was required to under the Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”). HARPC is a new set of food safety...
Breaking News: FDA Finally Issues HARPC, Produce Safety Proposed Rules
After a full year’s delay the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally released some key proposed rules due under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act. These proposed rules include (click on each to learn more): 1. Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive...
Medical Device Manufacturers Registration Renewal Deadline Pushed to January 31, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the registration renewal deadline for medical device establishments from Dec. 31, 2012 to Jan. 31, 2013. In addition, FDA has been drastically overloaded and delayed in responding to communications from the...