How an FDA Inspection Can Fuel a Consumer Lawsuit
The following is a letter from FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England: As you may know, Diamond Pet Food Processors issued multiple product recalls over the last two months. On April 12, only six days after Diamond's first recall, FDA conducted a weeklong...
FDA and Nanotech Regulation: The Smaller it is, the Longer it Takes
Apparently, the smaller something is, the longer it takes to talk about. This is the axiom currently employed by FDA, illustrated by the agency’s recently published guidance on nanomaterials in cosmetics and foods (5 years in the making). While the European Union...
Rick Quinn & John Johnson Author FDLI Article, “FDA’s Illegal Treatment of Brazilian Orange Juice During the Carbendazim Incident”
Did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration act illegally, capriciously and arbitrarily in its treatment of imported orange juice during the carbendazim incident? This is the question that FDAImports.com Principal, Rick Quinn, and Associate Attorney, John Johnson,...
Steven A. Johnson Joins the FDAImports.com Team
The FDAImports.com team is pleased to welcome Steven A. Johnson to our team! Mr. Johnson joins the firm as Principal, bringing nearly 20 years of FDA, Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device experience to the firm. He will be assisting clients with biotech and...
Benjamin England Presents on FSMA Time Bombs: The Sleeper Provisions in FSVP, Bioterrorism, Import Alerts, HARPC and International Trade
FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England, recently presented a webinar with FXConferences entitled “FSMA Time Bombs: The Sleeper Provisions and How to Prepare.” This webinar addressed numerous provisions within the Food Safety Modernization Act that are not...
FDAImports.com Gets Company off FDA Import Alert 53-17, Microbiological Contamination in Cosmetics
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...
You Can’t “Pink Slime” America Twice: Why ABC News is Struggling to Re-create a Food Safety Scare with Imported Shrimp
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 Love Imported Foods but are Too Quick To Blame Them
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...
No More Crying Over Pacifiers: FDAImports.com Persuades FDA to Change ABI System
FDAImports.com achieved a major victory this month, making life easier for importers of pacifiers. The Automated Broker Interface utilized for making entry with U.S. Customs and Border Protection was originally set-up to force importers to notify and submit...
Partnership Interview: Rick Gilmore, Chairman of the Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF)
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...