FDA on Nov. 30 announced that it has approved three importers for participation in the agency’s Voluntary Qualified Importer Program in fiscal year 2021. Pacific Seafood and Sovena USA will join Costco, which was the lone participant last year, as members of the food importer trusted trader program, according to FDA’s VQIP dashboard. “The participants have successfully demonstrated management of the safety and security of their supply chains,” FDA said in an emailed news release. “As a VQIP participant, importers can import certain food products into the United States with greater speed and predictability, avoiding unexpected delays at the point of import entry.” The FY21 VQIP period began Oct. 1. FDA had extended the deadline to apply due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (see 2005260027).
FDA has issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Nov. 25, listing 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 Nov. 23 FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Nov. 20 FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
FDA has issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Nov. 18, listing 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 Nov. 19 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
FDA released on Nov. 19 an updated list of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) it has issued for medical devices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. “These Authorizations contain, among other things, conditions on the emergency use of the authorized products,” the agency said. The EUAs follow from FDA’s determination that, due to the pandemic, “circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of the virus that causes COVID-19, personal respiratory protective devices, and medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices,” it said.
On Nov. 17 FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Nov. 16 FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
FDA has created a new import alert for ready-to-eat human foods that don’t meet the agency’s preventive controls regulation requirements. New Import Alert 99-43 published Nov. 13 provides for detention without physical examination of “Ready-To-Eat Human Food Products That Appear To Have Been Prepared, Packed, Or Held Under Insanitary Conditions,” its title says.