Amendments to Registration of Food Facilities; Final Rule

The Food and Drug Administration is amending its regulations for registration of food facilities that require domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture/process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register with FDA. This rule amends and updates FDA's registration regulations and is part of its implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which added new provisions for the registration of food facilities. These amendments will further enhance FDA's capabilities with respect to responding to food safety issues, and in addition, provide FDA with information that it can use to focus and better utilize its limited inspection resources.

Text is available in English at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-07-14/pdf/2016-16531.pdf.