The Office of Management and Budget has approved a Food and Drug Administration interim final rule entitled: Administrative Detention of Food for Human or Animal Consumption. The need for this rule is based on a statutory deadline.
The Office of Management and Budget has approved a Food and Drug Administration interim final rule entitled: "Prior Notice of Imported Food." The need for this rule is due to a statutory deadline.
On April 27, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Food and Drug Administration sources have informed Broker Power that the agency expects to deploy PREDICT1 to its Atlanta and Minneapolis Districts soon, and training is underway for users in those districts. The agency recently successfully deployed PREDICT to the Florida and San Juan Districts.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to Lifetech Resources LLC regarding its manufacturing, distribution, and promotion of RapidLash Eyelash Renewal Serum, NeuLash Active Eyelash Technology, and NeuveauBrow Active Eyebrow Technology, which FDA states are unapproved and misbranded drugs and violate provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. FDA urges LifeTech to take prompt action to correct the violations, and states that failure to promptly correct the violations may result in legal action, including seizure and injunction.
On April 25, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy released a draft guidance outlining the sample size approach to new verification testing programs for DOE and third-party certification bodies in support of the ENERGY STAR program, and how the approach relates to determining testing failures.
The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing a new category of commercial fryers that can now earn the ENERGY STAR label. Effective April 22, 2011, EPA expanded the scope of the eligible models to include large vat gas and electric fryers. ENERGY STAR qualified large vat fryers are 10-35% more energy efficient than standard models. More information on commercial fryers is available here.
On April 26, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration is requesting comments by June 27, 2011, to help it review its framework for analyzing existing regulations to determine whether they should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, pursuant to Executive Order 13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review1."
On April 25, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: