Guidance for Industry: What You Need To Know About Administrative Detention of Foods; Small Entity Compliance Guide; Availability

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "What You Need to Know About Administrative Detention of Foods; Small Entity Compliance Guide" (SECG) which updates an earlier guidance of similar title. Previously, this guidance restated the legal requirements of FDA's administrative detention regulation. This document also at one time served as FDA's guidance for administrative detention. In October 2011, FDA revised an earlier version of this guidance document to be consistent with the changes made by an interim final rule (IFR) issued in the Federal Register of May 5, 2011, and to serve as guidance for industry on administrative detention. FDA has since issued a final rule adopting the IFR as final without changes which was published in the Federal Register of February 5, 2013. Accordingly, FDA is further revising the existing guidance document to provide guidance intended to help any entity comply with the requirements in FDA's administrative detention regulation, including the amendments to these requirements made by the final rule. This notice also clarifies that this document continues to serve as FDA's guidance for ad