On May 20 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On May 19 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 18 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices (here). The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The Food and Drug Administration is finalizing changes in nutrition facts labels on food and dietary supplements. Under one final rule (here), FDA is revising the information required on nutrition facts labels and change how the nutrition facts are presented. That final rule also requires that manufacturers keep records on added sugar, the amount of dietary fiber, and certain vitamin contents, and amends requirements for food for small children and pregnant women. FDA’s other final rule (here) increases recommended serving sizes to bring them into line with current eating habits, and requires an additional column of nutrition information for packages that contain more than one serving but could be consumed in one sitting. Compliance with new labeling requirements is required by July 26, 2019 for small businesses with less than $10 million per year in annual food sales, and by July 26, 2018 for all other businesses.
On May 18 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 has received a petition to ban use of several ortho-phthalates in food contact surfaces, it said (here). Comments on the petition, which was filed by environmental and public interest advocacy groups, are due July 19.
On May 17 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On May 16 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The Food and Drug Administration on May 13 released draft guidance documents to help small business “qualified facilities” comply with new regulations on preventive controls for human and animal food, it said (here). Documents include questions and answers on requirements for qualified facilities (here), as well as draft “attestations” of eligibility for qualified facility status for human food (here) and animal food (here), and instructions for how to submit them (here). Small business “qualified facilities” are mostly exempt from upcoming preventive controls requirements for human and animal food (see 1509100021 and 1509100073). In order to obtain qualified facility status, companies subject to human food preventive controls regulations must submit their attestations by Sept. 17, 2018, and companies subject to animal food rules must file them by Sept. 17, 2019, though in each case records must be kept before these dates.
On May 13 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: