Food Import Prior Notice Proposed Rule Allows Amendments, Not Appeals
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
An integrated FDA and U.S. Customs Service food import database should be in place by 2005, the agency says in a 1proposed rule on the prior notification of imported foods
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