The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details on specific alerts.
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Banham Poultry Ltd and
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The researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are particularly
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As of April 17 there
When a food safety problem is discovered, there isn’t much done to make sure consumers find out. No one has to contact grocery stores or restaurants. No one has to notify consumers
