Imports, Verification Requirements

COVID-19: Key Issues When Sourcing Pandemic Prevention Supplies from China

White & Case LLP on 5/28/2020

Pandemic prevention supplies are in high demand during the current coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”) outbreak. China, as it gradually gets the outbreak under control, is resuming manufacture and exporting the supplies to the...more

CBSA Publishes Update of Trade Verification Priorities for 2020

Bennett Jones LLP on 2/5/2020

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has posted an updated list of verification priorities for January 2020. Verification priorities are established throughout the year and reflect the CBSA’s assessment of non-compliance...more

First FSVP Warning Letter Issued by the FDA

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 8/20/2019

In a signal to industry that the period for education and enforcement discretion related to the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) may be concluding, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued its first...more

FDA Issues First Warning Letter for Foreign Supplier Verification Program Violations under FSMA

Hogan Lovells on 8/16/2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued the first Warning Letter addressing violations of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rule, one of the seven major FDA Food Safety Modernization Act...more

Food businesses face extensive new requirements for food safety in Canada

Smart & Biggar on 8/2/2018

In her report on the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak, Independent Investigator Sheila Weatherill highlighted the need for “substantial consolidation and modernization” of the legislative and regulatory framework governing...more

United States and Australia: Comparable Food Safety Systems

Jones Day on 5/22/2017

On April 19, 2017, FDA announced that both the United States and Australia have recognized each other's food safety systems as comparable to each other. This is the third time that the FDA has given this recognition to a...more