A new section of the FDA Data Dashboard has been launched to help importers and manufacturers/processors meet supply-chain requirements under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) by helping them more easily find compliance and enforcement information related to specific firms. Three of the FSMA rules contain supply-chain requirements: the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs rule, the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule, and Preventive Controls for Animal Food rule.
The Data Dashboard allows users to search multiple databases. The data used to generate the dashboard graphs and search results are based on data already available to the public through the FDA.gov website. The datasets and data include the Inspections Database, Recalls, Import Alerts and selected data elements from the compliance and enforcement related information on FDA.gov. Additional data will be included in future releases of the Dashboard. You may find the location and additional information about each dataset and other data sources by clicking on the Compliance Dashboards or FSMA Data Search options above.
To assist with the evaluation process, FDA created a Supplier Evaluation Resources page to help importers and manufacturers/processors find relevant compliance and enforcement information for their suppliers, but that page required them to search multiple databases.
Posted in FDA and USDA Regulatory Update.