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3 Lessons Every Importer Must Learn From The Turkey Salmonella Recall
36 million pounds of ground turkey. That’s a ton of meat, 18,000 tons of meat to be precise. That’s the weight of 120 million brand-new iphones (without the box). So if almost everyone in Japan bought an iphone-4 today and then put them all on a scale, that’s how...
FDA’s New Border Fees Set the Stage For Massive Increase In Food Costs
Can you spell “ex-am-in-ation”? Even if you can spell it, can you define it? If you can’t then you won’t have any surprises this fall while you’re importing food to the USA. If you can correctly define what an “examination” is then you’d better sit down before you...
The FDA Import Refusal Report: Many Ways In, No Way Out?
FDA re-posted its Import Refusal Report on its website, as we reported in March. For each refused-entry, FDA gives the manufacturer’s name and address, the importer’s product description, and FDA’s rationale for the refusal, along with other information. FDA, like...
FDAImports.com Helps Correct Cosmetic Labeling Crisis
FDAImports recently assisted a cosmetics company in correcting a labeling issue and subsequently attaining release on their detained product. FDA had detained an entry of their cosmetics because the ingredient list named a color additive based on the Color Index name...
FDAImports.com Overcomes Import Alerts and Other Obstacles: 2 Success Stories
FDAImports.com recently declared victory for two clients with many shipments of products under FDA automatic detention due to FDA Import Alerts. An Import Alert will always cause shipment delays, supply-chain risks, increased costs and budget overages, not to mention...
FDA By The Numbers: Budget, Staff and Significant Events Since 1930
The Food and Drug Administration is no small government agency. In 2009 it boasted a 2.6 billion dollar budget and employed over 11,500 people spread from its suburban Maryland Headquarters to various national and international offices. The charts and data below...
FDA Announces Agency Restructuring: A Change For The Better?
FDAImports.com has obtained a copy of some very recent email correspondence sent by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg to her employees announcing her decision to restructure the agency’s top management tier. Although she cites...
Benjamin England to Present at RAPS Webinar: Imports and the FDA: Insight into Evolving Regulations
FDAImports.com Founder and CEO, Benjamin England, will be presenting at a RAPS webinar on July 20th, 2011 titled, "Imports and the FDA: Insight Into Evolving Regulations." This webinar will cover the changing landscape of FDA import...
FDAImports.com Fights for Eight Months for the Successful Removal of Client’s Soybean Product from U.S. Import Alert # 99-08, Automatic Detention
Months ago the expert consultants at FDAImports.com petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove a Chinese processor of soybeans from Import Alert # 99-08, “Detention Without Physical Examination of Processed Foods for Pesticides.” FDA’s basis to...
U.S. Firm Offering Free FDA Regulatory Training Sessions in China? It’s a Win/Win.
Last week FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn hosted a series of free FDA regulatory training sessions in Beijing and Shanghai, China for Chinese companies exporting FDA-regulated goods to the United States. Over 70 people attended the training sessions from over...