FDAImports.com’s success rate continues to increase, as it successfully petitions FDA to remove yet another client from Import Alert—this time, Import Alert #45-02, “Detention Without Physical Examination and Guidance of Foods Containing Illegal and/or Undeclared...
The FDAImports.com team of FDA consultants and attorneys recently petitioned FDA to remove another client from FDA Import Alert, this time, Import Alert #99-08, “Detention without Physical Examination of Processed Foods for Pesticides,” which is the same alert that...
Benjamin England, Founder and CEO of FDAImports.com, was recently featured on Bloomberg TV’s Street Smart program regarding the safety of imported Orange Juice and FDA’s “stop and hold” policy for incoming shipments. “The concentrations being found are extremely...
Myth #1: If FDA tests/rejects something then there must be a problem with it The FDA tests things all the time, even if there is not a problem with the shipment. The FDA uses Import Alerts, which are country or industry-wide notices that flag shipments due to prior...
Sources • http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/FruitsVegetablesJuices/ucm286302.htm • http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/FruitsVegetablesJuices/ucm287783.htm...
The FDA has implemented a “test and hold” policy for all incoming orange juice into the United States, looking for evidence (or not) of Carbendazim, a pesticide residue. Yet FDA clearly states that the EPA “has concluded that consumption of orange juice with...
As Orange Juice speculation drives juice futures all over the map and consumers brace for spending more on Orange Juice than gasoline per gallon, one must ask, “How is Big Juice assuaging the masses with all of this concern over orange juice?” As any cultural...
The FDA announced this week that it is implementing a “test and hold” policy for all imported shipments of orange juice to determine if they contain carbendazim (a fungicide, also called “MBC”). Under the law, a food cannot contain a pesticide residue unless the...
The Food Safety Modernization Act View more presentations from FDAimports.com The recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act is the greatest expansion of FDA’s food regulatory authority since the enactment in 1938 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This...
This month marks the 1-year anniversary of President Obama signing into law the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). One of the key implementation dates from the Act was January 4th, 2012, by when the following significant steps were to have been taken by FDA: •...
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