On Aug. 21, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Aug. 18, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Aug. 17, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Aug. 16, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Aug. 15, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Aug. 14, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

Comments are due Sept. 5 to the Office of Management and Budget on information collected through FDA's prior notice requirements for imported food, FDA said in a notice. The agency submitted its proposed extension of approval for prior notice requirements to OMB, it said. FDA estimates 10 minutes per new prior notice submission through the Automated Broker Interface and 23 minutes for each new submission via the FDA Prior Notice System Interface, 15 minutes for each cancellation of a prior notice in both systems, and one to eight hours for prior notice requests for review and post-hold submissions, for a total of 3,677,494 burden hours, an increase in burden hours attributed to an increase in the number of responses.

FDA is amending its regulations to remove some provisions for the use in foods of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) that remained following the agency’s finding in 2015 that PHOs are no longer generally recognized as safe (GRAS) (see 1506160024). The agency’s direct final rule removes PHOs as an optional ingredient in standards of identity for peanut butter and canned tuna, as well as provisions that allowed menhaden oil and rapeseed oil to include partially hydrogenated forms of these oils. FDA also is deleting a regulation “affirming hydrogenated fish oil as GRAS as an indirect food substance,” and is revoking prior, pre-1958 sanctions for the use of PHOs in margarine, shortening, and bread, rolls and buns.

On Aug. 11, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, which has complained that an end-of-year deadline for mandatory submissions to FDA on cosmetic product facility registrations and product listings is too rushed, said the draft guidance from the agency (see 2308080040) is inadequate to help importers comply.