The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added nine new substances to its Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances (FCS) Notifications. The newly listed substances and the manufacturers are listed below.
The French government has released two guidance documents on food-contact legislation. The first document, published by the French enforcement authority Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Repression of Fraud (DGCCRF), provides clarification on the enforcement of France's ban on bisphenol A (BPA), Law No. 2010-729, as amended by law No. 2012-1442 of December 24, 2012.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on July 15 that as of October 14, 2014, it will no longer accept old versions of Form 3480 for Food Contact Notification (FCN) submissions. The expiration date for Form 3480 can be found in the upper right-hand corner of page 1.
Packaging materials, along with construction materials and non-food chemicals, used in federally registered meat processing plants in Canada no longer need to be registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) as a result of recent amendments to the Canadian Meat Inspection Regulations (1990). The regulatory changes, which were proposed in April 2012, were published in the Canada Gazette on July 2, 2014 and became effective that day.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added two new substances to its Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances (FCS) Notifications. The newly listed substances and the manufacturers are listed below.
The government of Vietnam recently issued Circular 13/2014, outlining the responsibilities of three ministries with respect to food safety. Responsibilities for food packaging are also divided among the three ministries, according to a translation of the Circular by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (The translation can be found in USDA GAIN Report Number VM4029.)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule on "Current Good Manufacturing Practices, Quality Control Procedures, Quality Factors, Notification Requirements, and Records and Reports, for Infant Formula" (see 79 Federal Register 33057 (June 10, 2014)). This final rule affirms certain changes made to FDA's regulations by the Interim Final Rule (IFR) of the same name,published Feb.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added eight new substances to its Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances (FCS) Notifications. The newly listed substances and the manufacturers are listed below.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added 15 new substances to its Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances (FCS) Notifications. The newly listed substances and the manufacturers are listed below.