FDA Updates Fact Sheet on FSVP
The Food and Drug Administration updated its website to include more information on the Foreign Supplier Verification Program ahead of the regulation’s first compliance date on May 30, it said (here). New materials include updates to FDA’s fact sheet on FSVP (here), as well as a recent guidance document on how to file entries newly subject to FSVP on May 30 that allows the transmission of “unknown” for the FSVP importer’s unique identifier (see 1705100028), FDA said.
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Added to the fact sheet is a reminder that FDA extended the compliance date by two years for the requirement that importers receive written assurances when relying on a subsequent entity in the distribution chain to control a food safety hazard (see 1608230024), though importers must still disclose to customers “in documents accompanying the food that the food is not processed to control the identified hazard,” FDA said. The fact sheet now also says that “if the importer obtains many different foods from a single supplier, a separate FSVP would be required for each food.”