The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, effective July 6, 2004, which amends 21 CFR Parts 1, 10, and 16 to provide procedures for the administrative detention of an article of food, if an officer or qualified employee of the FDA has credible evidence or information indicating that such article presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, effective July 6, 2004, which amends 21 CFR Parts 1, 10, and 16 to provide procedures for the administrative detention of an article of food, if an officer or qualified employee of the FDA has credible evidence or information indicating that such article presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, effective July 6, 2004, which amends 21 CFR Parts 1, 10, and 16 to provide procedures for the administrative detention of an article of food, if an officer or qualified employee of the FDA has credible evidence or information indicating that such article presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.
Under the Bioterrorism Act
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) in order to invite comments on whether it should revise 21 CFR Part 1.101, which pertains to the recordkeeping and notification requirements for persons exporting human drugs, biological products, devices, animal drugs, food and cosmetics that may not be marketed or sold in the U.S. ("export only").
Shippers' Newswire reports that it now looks virtually certain that many ships and ports will fail to comply with the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) by July 1, 2004, stating that a May 17, 2004 survey of 35 governments by the IMO showed that only 1,902 of their 20,722 ships have received their ISPS ship security certificates, which represents only 9.2%. Regarding ports, the article states that only 301 out of 5,578 port facilities had received port security certificates as of May 17, 2004, which represents only 5.4%. (American Shipper, dated 05/27/04, ShippersNewsWire@americanshipper.com )
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a proposed rule that would amend its regulations at 7 CFR Parts 301 and 319 which govern the importation of fruits and vegetables in order to, among other things, expand the number of States in which fresh Hass avocado fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in Michoacan, Mexico (avocados) may be distributed.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice, effective May 24, 2004, which contains several technical corrections to its October 10, 2003 interim final rule requiring domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture/process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the U.S. to register with the FDA by December 12, 2003.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice and press release announcing that it will hold three public meetings this summer to receive input from stakeholders on the modernization of its current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) for food.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice announcing that it is reopening until July 6, 2004 the comment period for a 1995 proposed rule which proposed, among other things, to amend the FDA's existing health claims regulations to provide additional flexibility in the use of these claims on food products.