Tag: food safety/FSMA
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FDA Issues Rule on Administrative Detention of Food
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that adopts, without change, the interim final rule (IFR) titled “Criteria Used to Order Administrative Detention of Food for Human or Animal Consumption” that was published in the Federal Register on May 5, 2011. Effective February 5, 2013, the final rule affirms IFR’s change…
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FDA Announces Public Meeting to Discuss Proposed Food Safety Rules
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a public meeting to discuss “the proposed rules to establish standards for the growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce for human consumption (the produce safety proposed rule) and for current good manufacturing practice and hazard analysis and risk-based preventative controls for human food (the preventative controls…
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FDA Seeks Public Comment on Food Facility Registration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested public comments on the information collection provisions of regulations that “require registration for domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States.” According to FDA, the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of…
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FDA Proposes Food Safety Standards
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed two new food safety rules addressing foodborne illness prevention and produce safety under the Food Safety Modernization Act. According to FDA, the first rule would require both foreign and domestic food manufacturers “to develop a formal plan for preventing their food products from causing foodborne illness” and…
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GAO Urges FDA to Leverage Other Countries’ Oversight Resources
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report recommending that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revise its approach when comparing foreign food safety systems with the U.S. system to better ensure the safety of imported food. Under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, FDA’s enhanced oversight of food imports includes express authority to…
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FDA Food Facilities Registration System Is Unavailable
While foreign and domestic food facilities, including farms, must renew their registrations with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) beginning October 1, 2012, under the Food Safety Modernization Act, the agency is not accepting registration renewals at this time. Facilities required to be registered under the law are asked to check FDA’s website to learn…
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Public Health Law Conference to Address “Addiction,” Preemption and FSMA Issues
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics will sponsor a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 10-12, 2012, that will focus in part on food-related issues. The “Public Health law Conference 2012: Practical Approaches to Critical Challenges,” event will include concurrent sessions titled (i) “If Sugar Is Addictive, What Does It Mean for the Law?,”…
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Food Safety Advocates Sue FDA for Delaying FSMA Implementation
The Center for Food Safety and Center for Environmental Health have filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alleging that the agency has unlawfully delayed adopting implementing regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Ctr. for Food Safety v. Hamburg, No. 12-4529 (N.D. Cal., filed August…