FDA’s OASIS Down on July 17

CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that the FDA's OASIS import system will be down for maintenance on Saturday, July 17, 2010, starting at approximately 01:00 am ET (0100) and is not anticipated to be back up until 10:00 pm ET (2200). As a result, FDA will be operating under the Prior Notice Contingency - Scenario 2. CBP states that due to the length of this downtime, it may take some extra time for FDA field staff to perform FDA entry review and make admissibility “801(a)” decisions once OASIS becomes available. It is also possible that FDA field staff may need to rescind system "May Proceeds" issued right after the downtime is over. Notification of these "May Proceed" rescinds will be provided to filers. (See message for details on procedures to be followed during outage.)