The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires registration of manufacturing warehousing facilities for most product categories under the agency’s jurisdiction. This is true for food, dietary supplement, pet food, animal feed, drug, medical device, and biologic facilities. The only exception is the cosmetic sector; registration [...]
Few events are truly global but the 2020 pandemic has affected every living being on the planet in some way. It is the rare person whose life and/or business has not been turned upside down this year but I am pleased to bring you a [...]
Successful launch of a product requires more than a good marketing plan. It is also important to know whether your product is subject to special regulations from various government agencies. While the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission and even the Environmental Protection Agency [...]
All food, pet food and dietary supplement facility registrations must be renewed between October 1st and December 31st of even-numbered years. 2018 is a renewal year and prior to the renewal period FDA published two guidance documents on facility registration (guidance and supplemental guidance). All [...]
Update February 22, 2017: Many foreign manufactures of foods and dietary supplements are finding that their FDA Food Facility Registrations have been invalidated. These are companies that updated their registration between October and December 2016 as required but whose US Agent failed to confirm the [...]
If you are crunched for time during this end of year holiday season, this may be good news from FDA: In 2003 food and dietary supplement facilities were required to register with FDA. Re-registration or renewal was only required when information about the facility changed. [...]
As posted here previously, FDA has committed to greater inspection of imported products; particularly imported food and dietary supplements (supplements are regulated as a special class of foods). We frequently work with companies that wish to import products into the US and have developed the [...]
Hello! I hope this brief update finds you well. Here in the US Summer’s heat is unrelenting and FDA is turning up the heat also. I learned today that FDA has issued letters to foreign food facilities that they will be inspected between October 1, [...]