FDA Links for Maple Producers

CDR Joseph Frost, FDA Investigator (Food Specialist)
Joseph.frost@fda.hhs.gov / 802.868.4725. ext. 1101

FOOD FACILITY REGISTRATION

Guidance for Industry: What You Need to know About Registration of Food Facilities; Small Entity Compliance Guide:
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/FoodDefense/ucm331957.htm

Questions and Answers Regarding Food Facility Registration (Seventh Edition): Guidance for Industry: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/UCM332460.pdf

THE PREVENTIVE CONTROL RULE

21 CFR 117, Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food:
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=117

FDA Draft Guidance for Industry: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food:
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/ucm517412.htm

For more information about FSMA and to submit FSMA questions:
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/ucm517412.htm

Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance:
https://www.ifsh.iit.edu/fspca

Small Business Nutrition Labeling exemption:
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm053857.htm

Small Business Nutrition Labeling exemption
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm385663.htm
and maple specific:
https://www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/constituentupdates/ucm611186.htm

Qualified Facilities: 
https://www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/constituentupdates/ucm499545.htm