Thanks Pam...
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From: Pamela Tom [mailto:pdtom@ucdavis.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 October, 2003 2:07 AM
To: Seafood HACCP Mailing List; ca-seafood@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Addendum - FDA Satellite Mtg. Time and American Embassy Viewing Information
On October 28, 2003, the FDA Satellite program (re: registration of
domestic and foreign food facilities and prior notice of imported food
shipments) will be broadcast at:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern Time (10:00 am - 12:00 noon Pacific Time)
For information on open U.S. sites:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ohip/dcm/html/cfsan_open_sites.html
For information on INTERNATIONAL rebroadcast sites:
http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/seafood/log0310/0005.html
NEW INFORMATION (10/8/03): Parties interested in viewing the program at an
American Embassy location (October 31 -- English and French; November 3 --
English and Spanish) should contact the Press Secretary at the American
Embassy in your city. Not all Embassies will allow outside parties into
their Embassy. Decisions will be made on a city-by-city basis.
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Details on the regulations are at:
http://www.fda.gov/oc/bioterrorism/furls/
FDA actions on New Bioterrorism Legislation are at:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fsbtact.html
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The Food Facilities Registration regulation requires domestic and foreign
facilities that manufacture/process, pack, or hold food for human or
animal consumption in the United States to register with the FDA. Under
this interim final regulation, all affected facilities must register by
December 12, 2003. The online registration system will be available for
use on October 16, 2003. For assistance with online registration: in the
U.S call 1-800-216-7331 or 301-575-0156; from elsewhere call 301-575-0156;
or send a fax to 301-210-0247. Requests for assistance also may be emailed
to furls@fda.gov. Beginning October 16, 2003, the Online Registration Help
Desk will be staffed on business days from 7 AM until 11 PM U.S. Eastern
Time. Forms can be downloaded from:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~furls/papercd.html
[Note: you can register on-line as of October 16, 2003 at 6:00 PM EDT via
http://www.fda.gov/furls/ but you may want to secure the forms in advance
and study them now.]
Most of the prior notice information required by the interim final rule is
data usually provided by importers or brokers to the Bureau of Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) when foods arrive in the United States. Now, the
Bioterrorism Act requires that this information also be provided to FDA in
advance of an imported food's arrival to the United States. FDA will use
this information in advance of the arrival to review, evaluate, and assess
the information, and determine whether to inspect the imported food. FDA
and CBP have collaborated on the implementation of the prior notice
interim final rule. Nearly all of the current imported food shipments can
comply by using CBP's Automated Broker Interface of the Automated
Commercial System (ABI/ACS). Prior notice can be submitted either through
ABI/ACS or FDA's Prior Notice (PN) System Interface beginning December 12,
2003.
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