(Journal of Commerce Online – Bill Mongelluzzo)
FDA, CPSC press importers, customs brokers on changing regulations
Two federal regulatory agencies, the Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Product
Safety Commission, are stepping up their inspection activities to prevent
unsafe food products and consumer goods from entering the country.
Importers and customs brokers are expected to keep informed of the rapid
changes taking place to protect consumers, and to ensure that the overseas
plants that ship their products maintain the same standards for cleanliness and
safety that are required of U.S.
producers.
President Obama signaled his support of import safety regulations when he
signed on Jan. 4,
2011, the Food Safety and Modernization Act.
The FDA since then has had the “pedal to the floor” implementing the act, said
Anthony Taube, director of the agency’s prior notice section. Read more here.
