Under the FDA Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rule, most U.S. importers must develop FSVP plans to provide adequate assurances that their foreign suppliers are producing food in compliance with processes and procedures that provide at least the same level of public health protection as those required under section 418
Continue Reading FDA tells what it knows about the Foreign Supplier Verification Program
The FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Office of Food Policy and Response has released a list of draft and final guidance topics that are a priority for the FDA Foods Program to complete during the next 12 months.
The agency anticipates it will publish many of
Continue Reading 30 food safety tasks on FDA’s work list for 2022
Almost eight years after gaining statutory power to mandate food recalls, the FDA is officially publishing information to help industry understand when the agency will use its authority.
In a guidance document scheduled for publication in the Federal Register today, the Food and Drug Administration uses a question-answer format to
Continue Reading FDA puts its mandatory recall cards on the table — face up
Those guidance documents the Food and Drug Administration hands out to food manufacturers and others don’t mean as much as they once did. The Department of Justice has changed its policy so government lawyers will no longer rely on guidance documents to establish civil law infractions.
The policy change was
Continue Reading Sessions clears way for food companies to ignore FDA guidance
