Under the Food Safety Modernization Act, passed in 2011, the FDA shifts from responding to outbreaks to preventing them, requiring facilities that make, process, pack or hold food for US consumption to adopt preventive controls and adding two programs for importers.
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FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn to Exhibit and Present at Natural Products Expo Asia 2012
A trade announcement: FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn will exhibit at Natural Products Expo Asia in Hong Kong, August 23-25, 2012, where principal Rick Quinn presents on importing food and dietary supplements into the U.S. under FSMA, import alerts and natural and organic claims.
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Banned in Hawaii, Poisons our Planet, But You're Probably Still Using it
Honolulu's mayor signed a plastic bag ban starting July 1, 2015, completing county-by-county bans that make Hawaii the first state to outlaw most plastic bags. Los Angeles, Seattle and Aspen have acted too, and only 1 to 5 percent of the bags are recycled.
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Setting the Record Straight on the Proposed Chicken Inspection Policy
FSIS administrator Alfred Almanza, an inspector since 1978, defends the agency's proposal to modernize poultry slaughter inspection, saying much of the recent coverage is misinformation from people who have never been inside a poultry plant and that the plan will help prevent foodborne illness.
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How to register food processing facility with FDA
Step-by-step FDA instructions for registering a food processing facility under the Bioterrorism and Response Act of 2002, covering how to create an account at access.fda.gov and complete the Food Facility Registration Module to receive a registration number.
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U.S. releases new nutrition standards
USDA's first update to school meal rules in more than 15 years caps calories and sodium, requires fruit and vegetables daily in larger portions, sets weekly minimums for vegetable subgroups, phases in whole grains and limits milk to low-fat or fat-free.
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Consumers Might Drink More Fungicide Residues With FDA’s Crack Down on OJ
Former FDA regulatory counsel Benjamin England argues that parents avoiding orange juice over the carbendazim residue scare may end up feeding their children more of the fungicide by switching to apple or grape juice, where EPA residue tolerances run higher.
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Food Chemical Regulations Rely Heavily on Industry Self-Policing and Lack Transparency (PR)
An analysis led by the Pew Health Group found food manufacturers and a trade association decided the safety of about a third of the 10,000-plus substances that may be added to food, with no FDA review. Pew's Tom Neltner says an expedited 1990s process cut the public out of those decisions.
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RED ALERT: FDA Set to Ban Your Supplements
Mercola warns that the FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredients would make manufacturers run costly safety studies at very high doses, pushing many out of business and pulling fish oil formulas and plant extracts off the market, and urges readers to act against it.
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National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods to Hold Public Meetings
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods would meet Sept. 27-30 in Washington to discuss curbing foodborne norovirus and using microbiological criteria as process-control indicators.
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Dietary Supplement Importers Won’t Be Exempt From New FDA Fees According to FDAImports.com
Benjamin England of FDAImports.com warns that the FDA food inspection and re-examination fees starting October 1, 2011 will also hit dietary supplement importers, because federal law deems a supplement a food. His firm has launched a coalition opposing the import fees.
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FDA To Impose New Fees on Food Imports; Increase in Food Costs Imminent? (PR)
A press release warns that the FDA’s re-examination fees under the Food Safety Modernization Act, due October 1, 2011, will charge importers $224 an hour plus expenses. It argues the FDA defines “first examination” so broadly that most shipments will qualify.
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FDA reopens comment period on proposed ‘gluten-free’ food labeling rule
The FDA reopened comment on its 2007 proposal to define gluten-free labeling, which would bar the claim on foods containing 20 parts per million or more of gluten, and released a safety assessment of gluten exposure for people with celiac disease.
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USDA Announces Proposed Rule to Better Label Raw Meat and Poultry Containing Added Solutions (PR)
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service proposed a rule requiring clear, common names for raw meat and poultry containing added solutions, after finding labels that do not distinguish plain cuts from products that may be 40 percent solution. The agency is taking comments.
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FDA Finally Listened and Removed Arsenic from Chickens
Pfizer will stop selling 3-Nitro, the arsenic-based drug roxarsone fed to chickens since the 1940s, after an FDA study of 100 broilers found higher inorganic arsenic in the livers of treated birds than untreated ones.
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Benjamin L. England to Present at the FDLI US-China Food and Drug Law Conference (PR)
Benjamin L. England, founder and CEO of FDAImports.com, will speak on a panel about the new US Food Safety Modernization Act at the Food and Drug Law Institute's US-China Food and Drug Law Conference in Beijing on June 13 and 14, 2011.
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FDA seeks comment on preventive controls against foodborne illness
The FDA opened a public docket seeking recommendations on preventive control measures for food facilities under the Food Safety Modernization Act, including approaches workable for small businesses. Comments will feed into the hazard-analysis guidance the law requires.
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Food Bill Aims to Improve Safety - FDA
The Food Safety Modernization Act, signed January 4, requires food companies to write preventive-control plans, gives FDA better authority to require recalls, and strengthens oversight of imported food. CDC data show one in six Americans suffers a foodborne illness each year.
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