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FDA Resumes Domestic Surveillance Inspections

Posted on February 8, 2022

Citing a decline in COVID-19 cases, the FDA resumed conducting domestic surveillance inspections across all commodities yesterday, February 7. The agency will also proceed with previously planned foreign surveillance inspections

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AFDO & Others Tell FDA to Keep Inspection Mandate

Posted on June 11, 2021

The Consumer Brands Association, The Safe Food Coalition, and The Association of Food and Drug Officials published a joint letter to Janet Woodcock, FDA’s Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs,

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FDA Releases Forward-Looking Report on Inspections

Posted on May 7, 2021

On May 5, FDA released a report titled “Resiliency Roadmap for FDA Inspectional Oversight,” explaining how FDA adjusted its inspection program during the COVID-19 pandemic and providing details

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Supplement Manufacturer Gets Permanent Injunction

Posted on March 5, 2021

Dietary supplement manufacturer Confidence USA Inc., located in Port Washington, New York, its president, and its general manager received a permanent injunction on March 4, 2021 from the U.S. District

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FDA Announces that Inspections of Small Businesses to Verify Compliance with the Intentional Adulteration Rule Will Begin March 2021

Posted on July 21, 2020

On July 15, 2020, the FDA announced that routine inspections of small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) to verify compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Intentional

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FDA Announces Plans for Resuming On-Site Domestic Inspections of Food Facilities

Posted on July 13, 2020

Risk-based inspection priorities mandated by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011 require FDA to conduct routine inspections of high-risk domestic facilities at least once every three years.

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FDA and CDC Collaborate to Develop a Process that Would Govern How to Return to On-site Facility Surveillance Inspections

Posted on May 14, 2020

On May 11, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided an update in regard to the agency’s surveillance inspections during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its update, FDA stated

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FDA Scales Back Domestic Inspections in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted on March 20, 2020

On March 18, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has temporarily postponed all domestic routine surveillance facility inspections, which include facility inspections that the FDA

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FDA Provides States Flexibility to Start Routine Inspections on Small Farms As Early As January 1

Posted on December 10, 2019

As previously reported, both states’ departments of agriculture and FDA have begun visits to produce farms to conduct inspections for compliance with the Produce Safety Rule. The FSMA final

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FDA Announces Cooperative Agreement to Implement Produce Safety Rule

Posted on September 23, 2019

As previously reported, both states’ departments of agriculture and FDA have begun visits to produce farms to conduct inspections for compliance with the Produce Safety Rule. The FSMA final

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