Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a step towards ensuring the accuracy of its inventory of importers responsible for meeting the requirements of the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) rule.

Establishing risk-based preventive controls enables you to apply a proactive and systematic approach to your food safety program through the establishment of preventive controls designed to protect your food products, and the consumer, from biological, chemical (including radiological), and physical hazards.

The purpose of this guidance is to help you to determine whether the activities that you perform are within the “farm” definition. The regulatory framework for determining whether your business is a “farm” depends in large part on certain definitions.

This guidance is intended to assist industry and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff by recommending standards

The Reportable Food Registry (RFR or the Registry) was established by Section 1005 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-85)