FDA VQIP Trusted Trader Program Now Hoped to Begin in 2018
The Food and Drug Administration now intends to begin accepting applications for its Voluntary Qualified Importer Program in January 2018, with the first benefits accruing to importers the following October, said Domenic Veneziano, head of FDA’s import operations division, during…
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a Nov. 23 webinar. The trusted trader program for food importers, which will give participants the benefit of fewer examinations and expedited laboratory analysis (see 1506040017), awaits implementation of FDA’s accreditation system for third-party auditors. Importers must have those auditors certify their suppliers in order to obtain VQIP benefits, FDA has said (see 1503260014). Though FDA is set on Nov. 27 to issue its final rule laying the framework for third-party accreditation (see 1511130006), the agency must still issue a rule on user fees and a guidance on certification standards before the system becomes active, an industry lawyer recently said (see 1511190058).