Our friends at Food Chemical News are rolling out a brand-new conference this December – A conference solely aimed at addressing Food Safety Modernization Act issues relevant to food imports. Ben England, Founder and CEO of FDAImports.com, will be presenting on Day 1 of the conference in a session entitled, “Quantifying Added Costs of Operating Under New Regulation Standards.” This particular presentation will cover FSMA fees, production process cost changes under FSMA and added time/resource expenditure for FSMA-required changes in business operations.
We spoke with Jason Huffman, Editor in Chief of Food Chemical News and conference chair, about the standout quality of this conference. “The top experts we talk to about FSMA every week at Food Chemical News are all speakers at this conference,” said Huffman. “And we’ve been talking about FSMA since before it was signed by the president. I can’t believe we got them all on the roster, but we did.”
The conference, located in Washington DC, is for Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Directors, Regulatory and Public Affairs Managers, Heads of Government Affairs, General Counsel, Importers, and anyone involved in labeling, compliance and regulatory affairs. From the FCN website:
The new law [FSMA] contains dozens of major changes for the food industry, and especially companies and countries involved in importing food into the United States. In fact, FSMA takes particular aim at imported food, including provisions that would require FDA to continuously double its number of foreign food facility inspections every year, address port shopping, force importers to be accountable for their foreign suppliers, establish a third-party auditing certification program in relation to foreign facilities and also create a program by which certain trusted importers could earn fast-lane processing of their shipments at ports.
• Food Import Regulations Conference Brochure
• Register for the Conference (expired)
