Seafood

New FDA Draft Guidance Impacts Seafood Importers and Processors

New FDA Draft Guidance Impacts Seafood Importers and Processors

On February 9, 2024, FDA issued “Recommendations for Collecting Representative Samples for Food Testing Used as Evidence for Release of Certain Fish and Fishery Products Subject to Detention Without Physical Examination (DWPE) and Removal of a Foreign Manufacturer’s...

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Seafood HACCP Implementation for Foreign Suppliers

Seafood HACCP Implementation for Foreign Suppliers

The Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles and practices started as a joint project between NASA and Pillsbury in the 1960s. The goal of HACCP was to ensure safe food for NASA’s astronaut program. Since...

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GAO Study on FDA’s Seafood Import Alerts Released

GAO Study on FDA’s Seafood Import Alerts Released

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report that reviewed the steps FDA takes when removing seafood products from import alert. Although FDA intends to conduct a certain amount of sampling or inspections as part of their decision to remove a...

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Seafood Import Alerts: Understanding the Basics

Seafood Import Alerts: Understanding the Basics

An FDA import alert listing can destroy a supply-chain, and even result in an import ban. To issue an alert, FDA only needs to convince itself that one is necessary. Their impact and ease of issuance make import alerts FDA’s primary import enforcement tool, making it...

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Seafood Included in New U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Goods

Seafood Included in New U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Goods

Update 08/13/2018: The President has directed the USTR to consider raising the tariff level from 10% to 25% on the most recent round of tariffs, described below. As a result, the comment period has been extended to September 6, 2018. Posted: 07/19/2018: U.S Trade...

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Shrimp Added to NOAA/NMFS’s Seafood Traceability Program

Update: 4/25/2018 We previously reported that the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2018 (commonly called the omnibus spending bill), which was signed into law by President Trump on March 23rd, 2018, lifted the stay on inclusion of shrimp in the Seafood Import...

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