The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to apply Import Alert 99-29, "Detention Without Physical Examination of All Vegetable Protein Products From China for Animal or Human Food Use Due to the Presence of Melamine and/or Melamine Analogs," to imported...
Imports from China
FDA Expands Scope of Chinese Vegetable Protein Import Alert for Melamine
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...
DOJ Charges Manufacturer for Exporting Misbranded Masks
On June 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Chinese manufacturer with exporting misbranded face masks, purported to be N95 respirators. The criminal complaint against King Year Printing and Packaging Co., Ltd. includes numerous allegations that it...
Warning about Face Mask Imports
Update 6/10/2020 On June 6, 2020, the FDA made several changes to EUAs for certain N95 respirators and Non-NIOSH-Approved Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators. FDA issued EUAs for products used to decontaminate certain N95 respirators for multiple-user reuse by...