Dive Summary:
- As required by the recently instated Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), all food processing locations must register with the FDA before they are allowed to produce and sell any products.
- The department is urging all processors to get their registrations in before the Dec. 31 deadline, however they have recently 'unofficially' extended that for a month after said deadline.
- This should give companies ample time to get their registrations in before incurring penalties and/or shutdowns.
From the article:
The agency said it is encouraging facilities to meet the formal Dec. 31 deadline, but that it will exercise “enforcement discretion” for re-registrations received by Jan. 31, 2013. The agency said it is making this extension available in acknowledgement of the fact that it was not ready to accept reregistration applications at
the beginning of October as originally stipulated. FDA did not begin processing the re-registrations until Oct. 22.
