The Food and Drug Administration will give farms more time to comply with agricultural water requirements set by its produce safety regulations, FDA said in a final rule. Farms, other than sprout growing operations, will now have until Jan. 26, 2024, if they are a very small business under the produce safety rule; Jan. 26, 2023, if they are a small business; and Jan. 26, 2022, for all other businesses. The compliance dates for sprouts are unchanged, and have all passed. The extension also results in the alignment of all agricultural water compliance deadlines under subpart E of the produce safety rule so that they all fall on the same date, with some original deadlines extended by two years and others by four. Importers must verify their suppliers of covered produce comply with the produce safety regulations as part of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program.
On March 13 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 intends to move up enforcement dates for new rules on e-cigarettes and flavored cigars in response to concerns about their use among minors, FDA said in a draft guidance issued March 13. Under the proposed policy, FDA would begin requiring pre-marketing approvals for certain e-cigarettes and flavored cigars before they are sold in the U.S., it said. The policy would take effect 30 days after the agency’s guidance is finalized. Comments on the policy are due April 15.
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for March 13 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.
On March 12 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On March 11 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On March 8 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 March 8 ended a ban on imports of genetically engineered salmon, deactivating Import Alert 99-40 to allow the sale and importation of AquaBounty Technologies’ AquAdvantage Salmon, the only currently approved GE salmon for food use, it said in a “questions and answers” page recently added to the FDA website. The move follows regulations recently issued by the Agricultural Marketing Service setting disclosure requirements for GE foods and set to take effect in 2022 (see 1812260052). Congress had in 2016 directed FDA to ban imports of GE salmon until a labeling standard was developed, a requirement FDA deemed satisfied with the issuance of USDA’s final rule. “FDA intends to revise” agency guidance for “food manufacturers who wish to voluntarily label their food products or ingredients (for humans or animals) derived from Atlantic salmon as not containing GE Atlantic salmon,” it said.
On March 7 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On March 6 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: