FDA Updates Guidance on Administrative Detentions of Food

The Food and Drug Administration said a guidance is available on administrative detention of food. The FDA updated a previous guidance to make it consistent with a recent final rule on administrative detention regulations. Under the final rule, FDA can order administrative detention if there is reason to believe that an article of food is adulterated or misbranded. Decisions on whether FDA has a “reason to believe” a food is adulterated or misbranded are made on a case-by- case basis because such decisions are fact specific. The guidance is here.