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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By now food manufacturers should be more than aware of the new Biennial Food Facility Registration requirement set forth under the Food Safety Modernization Act (If not, read this NOW). Though registration is a relatively painless process, it can be time-consuming...
The FDAImports.com team achieved another Import Alert success, this time obtaining a green ticket for a Chinese firm for FDA Import Alert 99-29, “Detention Without Physical Examination of All Vegetable Protein Products From China for Animal or Human Food Use Due to...
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