Channels of Trade Policy for Commodities with Residues of Pesticide Chemicals for Which Tolerances Have Been Revoked, Suspended, or Modified by the EPA
ICR 201409-0910-009
OMB: 0910-0562
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Channels of Trade Policy for
Commodities with Residues of Pesticide Chemicals for Which
Tolerances Have Been Revoked, Suspended, or Modified by the
EPA
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
FDA's guidance, "Channels of Trade
Policy for Commodities With Residues of Pesticide Chemicals, for
Which Tolerances Have Been Revoked, Suspended, or Modified by the
Environmental Protection Agency Pursuant to Dietary Risk
Considerations," represents the agency's current thinking on its
planned enforcement approach to the channels of trade provision of
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and how that provision
relates to FDA-regulated products with residues of pesticide
chemicals for which tolerances have been revoked, suspended, or
modified by EPA pursuant to dietary risk considerations. FDA
anticipates that food bearing lawfully applied residues of
pesticide chemicals that are the subject of future EPA action to
revoke, suspend, or modify their tolerances, will remain in the
channels of trade after the applicable tolerance is revoked,
suspended, or modified. If FDA encounters food bearing a residue of
a pesticide chemical for which the tolerance has been revoked,
suspended, or modified, it intends to address the situation in
accordance with provisions of the guidance. In general, FDA
anticipates that the party responsible for food found to contain
pesticide chemical residues (within the former tolerance) after the
tolerance for the pesticide chemical has been revoked, suspended,
or modified will be able to demonstrate that such food was handled,
e.g., packed or processed, during the acceptable timeframes cited
in the guidance by providing appropriate documentation to the
agency as discussed in the guidance document. Examples of
documentation which FDA anticipates will serve this purpose consist
of documentation associated with packing codes, batch records, and
inventory records. These are types of documents that many food
processors routinely generate as part of their basic
food-production operations.
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