Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in 2012 to import food to the U.S. importers and U.S. and foreign food facilities, the introduction of user fees, the regulations will take effect on October 1, 2012 until September 30 only.

Under the new regulatory requirements, user fees in three ways: First, re-inspections of food facilities. Board found during inspections of food facilities, if failed, will be inspected again to determine whether the effective implementation of the food facility improvements to meet the FDA's requirements facilities such as failure to comply with "Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act," the statutory or regulatory requirements, will be regarded as failure. Second, the recovery of that violation and if companies do not implement the FDA's recall order, the Bureau did not comply with the specified way of recycling or recovery order to the FDA to provide relevant information, the council may be levied royalties. Third, the import and then check. the council must be based on "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," the collection and use will be checked twice fee, which shall levy the following four conditions: 1. a re-inspection of imported food, (2) request of the importer of the goods detained immigrants, 3. annulment shall not release untested products import alert, 4 destroyed denied entry of food.

Ningbo exported to the U.S. food has remained relatively steady growth, statistics show that the current U.S. annual exports of Ningbo area of about 90 million tons of food, worth more than $ 200 million from January to July this year, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau completed a total food exports to the U.S. accepted $ 180 million, an increase of 35.9% over last year, exports of food, including seafood, fresh frozen vegetables, canned food, spices, wine and candy and many other varieties of inspection and quarantine departments to remind the area related to export enterprises, the new levy Fee policy means that China's food into the United States will face more complex and more expensive the cost of the program,The majority of enterprises must master to understand the new U.S. food safety management changes, to continuously improve product quality and safety of food exports escort, while the more energy is used to optimize the export structure and expand export markets, weak links, crack restricting food exports deep-seated resistance to ensure that exports all the way to high.

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