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| February 2018 | USDA Announces Proposed Rule to Modernize Swine Inspection (USDA) - The proposed rule allows innovation and flexibility to establishments that are slaughtering market hogs. For market hog establishments that opt into NSIS, the proposed rule would increase the number of offline USDA inspection tasks, while continuing 100% FSIS carcass-by-carcass inspection. Market hogs are uniform, healthy, young animals that can be slaughtered and processed in this modernized system more efficiently and effectively with enhanced process control.
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| October 2017 | Compliance Date Guide - In October the FDA released a new guide to help farmers and food manufacturers determine when they need to comply with provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). On the same page, the agency also released a visual breakdown of key FSMA dates between 2015 and 2024. Of particular interest for the majority of Canadian exporters are the compliance dates for U.S. importers under the Foreign Supplier Verification Program for Food Importers (FSVP). If applicable, we encourage Canadian exporters to identify the upcoming compliance date and to contact their U.S. importer ahead of time to ensure they are ready for these new requirements.
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| United States - Guidance Documents
FDA issued guidance documents intended for facilities that may be subject to the Preventive Controls for Animal Food rule or the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule. The guidance is intended for domestic and foreign facilities that are required to register as food facilities under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act because they manufacture, process, pack, or hold animal food for consumption in the U.S.
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| October 2017 | Honey Market in the United States (Dušan Rnjak, AF) - Canada exported C$50.9 million worth of honey into the US. Alberta’s honey exports were worth C$23.2 million (or 3.84 m/lb.) with most of the product being shipped into Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, California and Michigan. Read more.
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| May 2017 | FSMA Final Rule on Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals (US Food & Drug Administration) - The final rule requires that importers perform certain risk-based activities to verify that food imported into the United States has been produced in a manner that meets applicable U.S. safety standards.
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