- We previously reported on the status of the 10 food-related Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) guidance documents that were issued by FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) under
FDA Finalizes FSVP Guidance for Importers of Human and Animal Food
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- On January 10, the FDA issued a final guidance for the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals. As our readers know, under
New Report Outlines FDA’s Strategy to Ensure the Safety of Imported Produce
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- On September 27, the FDA released “Activities to Enhance the Safety of Imported Produce,” a report which details how the Agency’s 2019 strategy for safeguarding imported food specifically
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New Draft Guidance on FDA’s Accredited Third-Party Certification Program
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FDA Issues the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program: Questions and Answers: Draft Guidance for Industry
- As previously covered on this blog, on November 27, 2015, FDA finalized the rule, “
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FDA Updates FSVP Guidance on UFI
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- On April 27, 2022, FDA issued updated guidance on the requirement, under the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for Food Importers (FSVP) regulation, for food importers to ensure that each entry
FDA Opens Industry Portal for FSVP Records Submission
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- Yesterday, on May 10, 2021, the FDA opened the FSVP Importer Portal for FSVP Records Submission (the Portal) for importers of human and animal food into the U.S.
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FDA Announces a One Year Pilot Program to Evaluate Third-Party Food Safety Standards and Invites Requests to Participate
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- FDA’s regulations implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requirements for Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF), Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCAF), and Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP)
FDA Increases FSVP Enforcement
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- FDA appears to have stepped up its enforcement of Foreign Supplier Verification (FSVP) regulations in the past several weeks, issuing four warning letters to companies in the past month for
FDA Resumes Records Review Under the FSVP Rule by Remote Inspections Instead of Onsite Visits to Importers
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- The Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) requires importers to perform certain risk-based activities to verify that their foreign supplier is producing food in accordance with
FDA Data Shows an Increase in Food Facility Violations for Failing to Develop a Foreign Supplier Verification Program
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- According to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Inspection Observation Data for the Fiscal Year 2019, the most commonly cited violation during FDA food facility inspections was failing to develop