On February 13, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On January 23, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration expanded its recall of certain frozen oysters from Korea that were harvested within the same regional harvest area that caused an earlier norovirus outbreak in November 2011 and have been linked to a new norovirus illness case in Pennsylvania. Samples of oysters from lots associated with this new case were tested by FDA and all samples were found to be positive for norovirus. As a result, FDA's recall notice has been expanded to include three additional lots of frozen Korean oysters. Lots added to FDA's recall include ASSI brand oysters bought/distributed by Rhee Bros Inc. Additional information on FDA's warning to consumers not to eat certain ASSI brand frozen oysters is available here.

On February 10, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On February 9, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration issued a weekly update to the trade on its sampling of imported orange juice products that may be contaminated with the fungicide carbendazim. This update is in the form of an "add on" to a February 2 addendum to a letter to the Juice Products Association.

On February 9, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for February 8, 2012 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued its February 2012 Import Refusal Report for OASIS by country or area of manufacture. According to their tally, the top country for refusals for the month of February was Taiwan with 122, followed by China with 20 and India and Mexico with 17 each. (The Operational and Administrative System for Import Support (OASIS) is an automated FDA system for processing and making admissibility determinations for shipments of foreign-origin FDA-regulated products seeking to enter domestic commerce.)

On February 8, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On February 7, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Food and Drug Administration has posted two charts listing the sample-by-sample results of its testing of imported and domestic orange juice products that may be contaminated with the fungicide carbendazim. The chart for imported orange juice products lists the (1) sample number, (2) collection date, (3) declared country of origin, (4) type of product, (5) sample result for carbendazim, (6) action, and (7) date of action. For example, the first entry for imported sample number 733896 states that the orange juice concentrate was collected on January 11, 2012, the declared country of origin was Brazil, that 48 - 60 ppb was found, and that the shipment was refused entry on January 30.