FSMA Re-inspection Fees MIA As Waiver Guidance Remains AWOL

FDA will bill supplement and conventional food product firms $248 per hour for re-inspections in the US and $285 per hour outside the country in fiscal 2018, but as it has since Congress passed FSMA, the agency will not collect re-inspection and mandatory recall fees.

Inspector removing a white card with Inspector sign from the inner pocket of his jacket. Conceptual of health, business or other inspection coming over unannounced.

FDA bills dietary supplement firms for the costs of re-inspecting facilities but it isn’t collecting the debts for want of publishing a guidance for a waiver from the fees authorized by the Food Safety Modernization Act.

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