- On September 25, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized amendments to its regulation governing prior notice requirements for imported human and animal food. These changes aim to
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FDA Issues New Draft Guidance on Imported Food
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FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Oversight of Food Products Covered by Systems Recognition Arrangements
- On July 12, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published notice of a new
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USDA’s Proposed Rule Strengthens the Enforcement and Oversight of Organics
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- On July 9, 2020, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service unveiled an unpublished draft of Strengthening Organic Enforcement, which is a new rule for the National Organic Program aimed at bolstering enforcement
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FDA Will Postpone Most Foreign Inspections Through April 2020 in Response to the Ongoing Spread of the Coronavirus
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- The ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to postpone most foreign inspections of manufacturing facilities. On March 10, 2020, the FDA
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
Amid Ongoing Trade Talks, U.S. and China Remove Import Restrictions on Poultry Products
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- On November 14, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that China plans to lift its ban on poultry imports from the United States. China originally instituted its ban
FDA Recognizes a Fourth Accreditation Body Under FSMA’s VQIP
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- As previously covered on this blog, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) established the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) for expediting the review and import entry of human
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OIG Critiques USDA-FSIS Foreign Food Safety Protocols
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- The Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act require foreign countries that export meat, poultry, and egg products to the U.S. to
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Senators Press for Reopening of China to U.S. Poultry
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- As previously covered on this blog, as part of a deal to resume U.S. beef exports to China, the U.S. pledged that it would remove obstacles to importing cooked
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BSE Case in AL Prompts S. Korea to Boost Quarantine Checks of U.S. Beef
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- Earlier this week, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurologic disease of cattle, in an eleven-year old cow
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