Japanese Food Safety: Reflections From Our SeafoodSource.com Webinar
FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England, recently led a webinar in conjunction with seafoodsource.com entitled, “Ensuring the Safety of Japanese Seafood.” This webinar addressed the state of food safety and seafood coming from Japan as industry resumes and...
Import Alerts: FDA’s Illegal Law?
For years Benjamin England of FDAImports.com LLC has argued that FDA improperly treats import alerts as automatic detentions and wildly throws around its authority when the agency finds what it calls the "appearance" of a violation of FDA law from evidence other than...
Connecting With The Organic Industry at Natural Products Expo East
The FDAImports.com exhibited last week and weekend at the 2011 Natural Products Expo in Baltimore, MD. Expo East, put on by New Hope Natural Media, is the east coast's largest gathering of organic manufacturers, producers and importers, drawing thousands of attendees...
The Epic Cargill Ground Turkey Recall Continues!
On September 11th 2011, Cargill recalled an additional 185,000 pounds of ground turkey citing a potential contamination risk of Salmonella Heidelberg. This recall follows the previous massive recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey products on August 3rd. In...
Dietary Supplement Importers Will Also Be Saddled by FDA’s New Import Fees
Question: What’s worse than driving a stolen car around town? Answer: Not knowing that you’re driving a stolen car! If you know something horrible is about to happen, you can prepare for it. But it’s a whole different story when something bad is about to happen to...
How Much of U.S. Food Is Imported?
UPDATE: 06/23/2017 - How Will FDA Handle Food Imports: Effects of FDA Program Alignment and FSVP This chart illustrates the percentages of U.S. food that is imported from other countries. Based on research by FDA and The U.S. Small Business Administration, this chart...
Who’s Going to Pay For New FDA Fees? Join The Club Taxpayers!
On October 1st, 2011, FDA will implement a new fee/examination structure that will radically affect the cost of food importing, food prices and the overall burden on taxpayers. This new structure (tax) will require every significant food import with a questionable...
Small Food Importers Respond to FDA Imported Food Fees: “We are Here! We are Here! We are Here!”
“My six year old daughter loves the classic story of a faithful and kind old elephant who has the ears to hear the sound of a very small person swirling through the space flotsam and jetsam on the surface of a small speck of dust – to the chagrin of a sour kangaroo...
FDA Re-Examination Fees For Small Businesses: Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya?
In our August 11 blog post, we alerted our readers to new fees that FDA will begin extracting from food importers and foreign food manufacturers at $224 per hour ($335/hour for foreign travel). FDA will charge the new fees whenever FDA “re-examines” imported food it...
The 4 Common Mistakes of Importing Cosmetics to the USA
Are you a cosmetics manufacturer or importer bringing in product to the United States? The FDA is serious about regulating cosmetics, especially when it comes to color additives (see chart). Make sure you’re not making one of these common mistakes when it comes to...