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FDA Releases Small Business Guide on Recently Extended FSMA Deadlines

The Food and Drug Administration on May 11 released a small entity compliance guide to help small businesses comply with newly extended deadlines under the Food Safety Modernization Act. The three-page document refers small businesses to a January guidance document…

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on FDA’s decision to exercise enforcement discretion for written assurance requirements under FSMA, including the Foreign Supplier Verification Program regulations, for importers and other facilities relying on downstream customers to control food safety hazards (see 1801040035). The guidance also said FDA would not enforce certain requirements for food contact substances, some facilities that conduct farm-related activities but aren’t considered farms, as well as human food facilities that perform certain manufacturing and processing activities for "by-products" that will become animal food.