To: Seafood Community
Fr: Pamela Tom, University of California, Sea Grant Extension Program
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
issued a revised compliance policy guide (CPG) that describes their
strategy for enforcing the requirements of the prior notice interim final
rule (IFR) while maintaining an uninterrupted flow of food imports.
FDA and CBP also announced a corresponding three month delay in their
projected date for issuing the prior notice final rule from March 2005 to
June 2005. This will allow FDA and CBP to retain the three month
assessment period to determine whether the prior notice time frames can be
reached further as they develop the prior notice final rule.
Lastly, the agencies announced the issuance of an updated prior notice
compliance summary, and a new "Guidance for Industry: Prior Notice of
Imported Food Contingency Plan for System Outages." The compliance
summary states that since increased enforcement began in June, entries
submitted to FDA and CBP with no prior notice have been almost eliminated.
Although some problems still exist, only a small percent fail to submit
any prior notice information. Most prior notice data are being submitted;
however, completion of registration number and bill of lading is lower
than completion of most other data elements.
More detailed information is available at the FDA web site on The
Bioterrorism Act of 2002 under the heading "Recent Activities" located at
http://www.fda.gov/oc/bioterrorism/bioact.html
The new posts include:
*The FDA Talk Paper issued on Thursday, August 12, 2004
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2004/ANS01304.html
*Compliance Summary Information: Prior Notice
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~pn/pnsum.html
*Revised Compliance Policy Guide http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~pn/cpgpn3.html
*Revised Joint Plan http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~pn/pnplan2.html
*Prior Notice Contingency http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~pn/pndguid.html
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