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FDA Delays on Registration Renewals, but Why?

Another Food Safety Modernization Act implementing rule is delayed

Gee whiz, what’s up already with the FDA food facility registration requirement?   Facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human or animal consumption have to register themselves with FDA, thanks to a change in the law following the 9/11 attacks. 

And the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act goosed that requirement, saying facilities had to renew their registration once every two years, and setting up a schedule for doing so, namely, between October 1st and December 31st of each even-numbered year.  In other words, starting right now.

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