On June 5 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On June 4 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On June 1 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On May 31 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for May 30 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.

The Food and Drug Administration on May 30 announced the approval of a new accreditation body for approving third-party certifiers required by provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS), based in Thailand, has been approved by FDA for a period of five years to accredit certification bodies with the ability to perform audits of compliance with preventive controls regulations on human and animal food, FDA said. ACFS becomes the third accreditation body approved by FDA, joining the American National Standards Institute and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB). Use of third-party certifiers accredited by these bodies is required for participation in the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program, and “in certain circumstances FDA can require that imported products be certified” before entering the U.S., the agency said. FDA’s VQIP trusted trader program is on hold because no third-party certifiers have yet been accredited by FDA-approved accreditation bodies (see 1805300043).

On May 29 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On May 25 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On May 24 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Food and Drug Administration on May 25 announced the availability of an updated guide to help small businesses comply with food facility registration requirements. The new version of FDA’s small entity compliance guide includes information about the agency’s July 2016 final rule that overhauled food facility registration requirements (see 1607130018), including provisions requiring confirmation by the entity listed as U.S. agent on a facility’s registration.