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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Regulations
Information required for food facility registration includes:
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Facility information (name, corporate entity type, physical
location, trade names used to do business)
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Contact information (telephone, email address, emergency
contact, preferred mailing address)
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Product information (general product categories)
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Any changes in this information must be updated with FDA
within 60 days of the change
Facilities must register before they beginmanufacturing, processing,
packing, or holding operations. If a previously registered processing
plant has moved to a new location, the plant must be registered
at the new location. The previous registration will become invalid
after the move/relocation. In addition, should your facility come
under new ownership, the former owner must cancel the facility’s
registration and the new owner must register the facility before
beginning operations.
However, food facility registration exemptions include trading
companies, personal residences, transportation only, farms, retail
food establishment, fishing vessels and USDA-regulated facilities.
Nonetheless, wholesalers, distributors, brokers, etc. must ensure
that processing firms they represent comply with all registration
requirements. According to The Food Safety Modernisation
Act of 2011, the F&B facility need to renew its registration every
two years (on even-numbered years) and must consent to FDA
inspection.
Failure to renew results in invalidated registration and
is a “prohibited act”.
The Final Rule for food facility registration required unique facility
identifier and electronic submissions only in 2020. If the registration
submission, update, renewal or cancellation is not made by the
owner, operator, or agent in charge, FDA will verify the third party
was authorised to act on behalf of the registrant. In the case of
Agent Assignment Verification, the FDA will verify that the person
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