The Food and Drug Administration’s Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program issued the final version its 2012-2016 Strategic Plan, which identifies key goals and objectives to advance food safety, nutrition, and animal health. The Plan includes 7 program goals, including the establishment of science-based preventative control standards, high rates of compliance both domestically and internationally, improved detection of and response to foodborne outbreaks, etc.
Brian Feito
Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 20, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for April 23, 2012:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued emails April 23, 2012, announcing changes to some Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
During the week of April 16 through April 22, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Mexico's Diario Oficial of April 24, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the April 24, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another TIT article):
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the April 24, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Food and Drug Administration issued a report titled “Advances in FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs”, which describes the actions that the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) has taken in recent years to enhance the quality, accountability, and timeliness of its postmarket drug safety decisions. The FDA also issued a companion report, “Regulatory Science in Action: Enhancing Drug Safety & Manufacturing Quality at FDA with Research”, which includes, among other things, a section on recent developments in import screening.
The Food and Drug Administration published a report titled “Global Engagement” to outline the actions that it is taking to respond the challenges it faces with regard to the rapid increase in imports of FDA-regulated food and drug products and medical devices over the past decade. Highlights of the report include updates on pilot programs for rapid inspection of products in foreign countries, collaboration with foreign food and drug safety agencies on inspection, etc.