GUEST POST by Jennifer Diaz
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authority to put an importer, manufacturer, shipper, grower, geographic area of a country, or an entire country on a “detention without physical examination” (DWPE) list  (a/k/a the FDA’s ‘Black List’).  To check if a company you are doing business with is on [...]

Peter Quinter, Partner and Chair of the International Law Practice at Becker Poliakoff will moderate “FDA and You: Creating Best Practices for Importing Food and Medical Devices” on June 13th at the Miami Free Zone in Miami, Florida. While the seminar does not reference supplements specifically in the title, all of the information provided [...]

Discussion at the American Conference Institute conference on dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and functional foods turned to the problem the FDA faces trying to inspect the increasing volume of imported supplement and food ingredients coming into the USA from countries like China (which is the subject of an import alert allowing FDA to detain protein products [...]