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What is the FSVP program ?

Our comprehensive FSVP program guarantees your foreign suppliers uphold the same public health protection levels as domestic preventive controls and produce safety regulations. We're committed to ensuring your imported foods are free from adulteration and accurately labeled for allergens. Choose us for an exceptional importing experience and confidently conquer the U.S. market!

The FDA FSMA rule on Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals is final, and the first compliance dates began May 30, 2017.

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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US OWNER OR CONSIGNEE OF A FOOD

For the purposes of FSVP, an importer is the U.S. owner or consignee of a food offered for import into the United States. If there is no U.S. owner or consignee, the importer is the U.S. agency or representative of the foreign owner of consignee at the time of entry, as confirmed in a signed statement of consent.

IMPORTS FOODS ONLY FROM FOREIGN SUPPLIERS

Importers must establish and follow written procedures to ensure that they import foods only from foreign suppliers approved based on an evaluation of the risk posed by the imported food and the supplier’s performance or, when necessary on a temporary basis, from unapproved suppliers whose foods are subjected to adequate verification activities before being imported.

DEVELOP, MAINTAIN AND FOLLOW AN FSVP FOR EACH FOOD

Importers are required to develop, maintain and follow an FSVP for each food brought into the United States and the foreign supplier of that food. If the importer obtains a certain food from a few different suppliers, a separate FSVP would be required for each of those suppliers

IMPORTERS THAT ARE ALSO MANUFACTURERS/PROCESSORS

Certain importers that are also manufacturers/processors are deemed in compliance with most FSVP requirements if they are in compliance with the supply-chain program requirements under the preventive controls rules; they implement preventive controls for the hazards in the food in accordance with the requirements in the preventive controls rules; or

PERIODIC EVALUATION OF THE SUPPLIER

The evaluation of the risk posed by the imported food and the supplier’s performance must be reevaluated at least every three years, or when new information comes to light about a potential hazard or the foreign supplier’s performance

HAZARD ANALYSIS

An importer is required to identify and evaluate—based on experience, illness data, scientific reports and other information—the known or reasonably foreseeable hazards for each type of food it imports to determine if there are any hazards requiring a control. .

PRODUCTS NOT COVERED UNDER FSVP

These exemptions include certain juice, fish, and fishery products (which are already subject to verification under FDA’s hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) regulations for those products), food for research or evaluation, food for personal consumption, alcoholic beverages, food that is transshipped, food imported for processing and future export, food exported from and returned to the United States without manufacturing/ processing in a foreign country, and certain meat, poultry, and egg products regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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