FDA Seeks Comments on Application, Record-Keeping Burden of VQIP Trusted Trader Program
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments on the burden importers will face if they participate in the upcoming Voluntary Qualified Importer Program, as well as on other aspects of the program’s information submission and record-keeping requirements (here). The…
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agency said it expects 200 applicants in the program’s first year, with each application requiring 80 to 100 hours to complete, and reapplications for subsequent years taking 20 hours. Each importer will also have to compile a quality assurance plan, which should take 160 hours to put together in year one, and 16 hours to update each subsequent year of participation. FDA has said it hopes to begin accepting applications for VQIP, a trusted trader program for food importers that will give participants the benefit of fewer examinations and expedited laboratory analysis, in January 2018, with importers seeing the first benefits the following October (see 1511230022). Comments are due to the Office of Management and Budget by Sept. 15.