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FDA Updates Available Product Categories for Upcoming Food Facility Registration Period

The Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 26 updated product categories that foreign and domestic food facilities may choose in biennial registrations with FDA, adding the list of new categories to its guidance of food facility registration (here). New categories…

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include animal food categories of botanicals and herbs, direct fed microbials, animal protein products, forage products, human food byproducts and technical additives. FDA is also removing acidified foods and low-acid canned foods from food product categories because they are now activity types, and adding molluscan shellfish as a food shellfish instead of an activity type. Food companies will be able to select the new categories during the upcoming registration period from October through December, FDA said (here).