FDA issues warning about regulated products from South Asia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to importers to be extra cautious with regulated imports from the tsunami-damaged South Asian region.
“With the massive infrastructure disruption as well as damaged facilities and warehouses we have a concern that FDA regulated products may become contaminated,” the agency said a Jan. 6 administrative message to the shipping industry.
The FDA said importers should be “proactive and diligent; checking the quality of products, looking for obvious physical and water damage, conscious of the possibility that goods may have been repackaged.”
For further information, importers may contact the FDA’s Division of Import Operations and Policy by telephone at (301) 443-6533.
