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...
Food Safety Modernization Act
FDA Data Dashboard Enhanced to Help Importers with FSVP Compliance
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...
Warning Signs You May Get Added to an Import Alert
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FSVP Enforcement Countdown: Are you Ready?
What will happen starting March 19, 2018? Starting March 19, all imported human food shipments from foreign suppliers having less than 500 Full Time Equivalent employees (FTEs) will be subject to FSVP declaration during...
FDA’s Enforcement of FSVP: Where is Your Plan?
UPDATE 03/29/2018: FDA has committed to well over 1,000 FSVP inspections this year, so the likelihood one will be at your office has increased significantly. The reach of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)...
FDAImports.com and 3iVerify – a winning combination for FSMA compliance
FDAImports.com has signed a Strategic Partner agreement with Primority Limited and is adopting Primority’s award-winning cloud-based and account-managed compliance solution, 3iVerify, to support FDAImports.com’s regulatory services and make it even easier for their...
VQIP Participation Delayed by FDA
UPDATE 01-31-2018 : Today FDA announced the first accredited body, ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB), under the Accredited Third-Party Certification program. VQIP applications are now being accepted by the...
FSMA Enforcement Discretion Announced on Specific Provisions
FDA announced that it will exercise enforcement discretion for certain provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act, effective January 4th, 2018, until FDA decides on further action for each of the...
Animal Foods: Meet the Preventive Control Regulation, but not FDA Investigators
The Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA’s) staggered implementation continues with two new compliance events for the animal food industry starting yesterday, September 18, 2017. “Large” Facilities (500 or more employees) must comply with the Hazard Analysis and...
So it Begins: FSVP Inspections
FDA has begun inspecting U.S. food importers for their compliance with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). The FSVP regulation has a staggered compliance date between May 30, 2017 through July 27, 2020 (depending on the food type and the foreign...