FDA to Maintain Collection of Traceability Records
The FDA is informing the Office of Management and Budget that it intends to continue to collect information related to the agency's efforts to maintain traceability records for certain foods. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act requires the FDA to establish additional recordkeeping requirements for facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold foods that the agency designates as high-risk to facilitate the rapid and effective traceability of such foods. The foods are on the Food Traceability List on the FDA's website.
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The regulation enables the FDA to identify and quickly locate contaminated or potentially contaminated food and inform the appropriate individuals and food facilities of specific terrorist threats, it said. Non-transporters' records should include the name and full contact information of sources, recipients and transporters; an adequate description of the food, including the quantity and packaging; and the received and shipping dates. Required records for transporters include the names of consignor and consignee, points of origin and destination, date of shipment, number of packages, description of freight, route of movement and name of each carrier participating in the transportation, and transfer points through which shipment moved.
Comments on the information collection are due by 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 9, according to a notice to be published in the Dec. 9 Federal Register.