In 2012 FDAImports represented a Chinese primary vegetable protein processor to obtain the first Green Ticket from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Import Alert (IA) #99-29. Since then, multiple other Chinese vegetable protein processors have obtained a Green...
The Foreign Supplier Verification Program for Food Importers (FSVP) is one of the most significant Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) provisions and greatly impacted the food industry. On May 10, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened a specific “FSVP...
Update 04/27/2021 On April 23, President Biden signed the FASTER Act into law, requiring that all packaged food labels disclose sesame ingredients beginning January 1, 2023. Orignal Post 04/05/2021 Sesame is a common ingredient in many of the foods in the U.S.,...
As an importer, once you have completed Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for each of your food items from your foreign suppliers, you can file away your documents until a time when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requests to conduct an inspection...
Beginning October 1, 2020, FDA will require a unique facility identification (UFI) number when registering food production facilities. Right now FDA has only approved Data Universal Numbering Systems (DUNS) numbers for use as UFIs for food facility registration. DUNS...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started 2020 off strong; on January 1, 2020, FDA required compliance with new food and dietary supplement labeling regulations for manufacturers with ten million dollars in annual sales. Manufacturers with less than ten million...
FDAImports.com has entered into a new type of Strategic Partnership with Mesh Intelligence that will bring together FDAImports.com’s deep technical, advisory and consulting expertise in FDA, USDA and Customs compliance and regulation, with Mesh Intelligence’s...
Earlier this week the U.S. Commerce Department announced there is a new draft suspension agreement, which will avoid the need for antidumping duties (ADD). Their press release indicated that after a 30-day notice period, a final agreement could be signed on September...
FDA issued their first Warning Letter to an importer for not complying with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) that was introduced 8 years ago with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). For this first Warning Letter, FDA selected a food importer that...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a critical step towards enforcement of FSVP by creating Import Alert 99-41, "Detention Without Physical Examination of Human and Animal Foods Imported from Foreign Suppliers by Importers Who Are Not in Compliance...
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