Benjamin England, Founder and CEO of FDA consulting firm, FDAImports.com, will present a half-day seminar on the Food Safety Modernization Act to the Baltimore Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association (bcbfa.org) in Baltimore, MD. The seminar will address: The...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently released its Domestic and Foreign Facility Reinspection, Recall, and Importer Reinspection Fee Rates for FY 2013. Under FSMA FDA has the authority to assess and collect fees to cover reinspection-related costs and costs...
FDAImports.com, in partnership with U.S. Customhouse Broker, J.O. Alvarez, Inc., will be hosting two Food Safety Modernization Act training sessions in Celaya and Monterrey, Mexico this October 16th and 18th respectively (free of charge). The training sessions will...
It’s almost here. The new biennial FDA registration requirement for foreign and domestic food facilities imposed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) takes effect October 1, 2012. FSMA amended Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) Section 415 by requiring foreign...
The FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn Team will be exhibiting at the 2012 Natural Products Expo Asia in Hong Kong on August 23 – 25, 2012. In addition to exhibiting at one of Asia’s largest natural products events, Rick Quinn, Principal at FDAImports.com will be...
FDAImports.com recently achieved another success, this time helping a client obtain removal from FDA Import Alert 53-17. This particular Import Alert, “Detention Without Physical Examination of Cosmetics Due To Microbiological Contamination," affects over 50...
Can you slime American twice? You can try, according to Jim Avila and ABC News. Attempting to re-create its journalistic success from the “pink slime” story, ABC News recently ran a short segment on foreign shrimp and antibiotics, claiming that, in a recent random...
Americans consume an incredible amount of imported foods. For shrimp, over 90% of what we consume is imported, for produce, 35%, and some estimates claim that 20% of the total U.S. food supply is imported.1 Whether it’s caviar or truffles or bananas or cookies, we...
We’d like to take a moment to introduce one of our partners here at FDAImports.com, the Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF), a 501(c)(3) focused on establishing dialogue, training, and private-public collaboration in all areas of food safety, imports and the food supply...
If you remember only one thing about FDA-related legal matters involving imported products it should be this: Even if FDA issues a “final” FDA refusal on a legal matter, it is still possible to 1) prove that the FDA got it wrong, and 2) convince FDA to reverse...
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