FDA deletes over 47'000 food facilities for expired registrations
More than 47,600 food facilities were deleted from the FDA's database because they failed to renew registrations by the end of 2018, a requirement of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The agency now has registrations for 186,016 facilities, half of which are outside the country.
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires food facilities to renew their FDA registrations during the fourth quarter of each even-numbered year.
After the purge, FDA was left with 186,016 food facility registrations at the start of 2019. More than half of those facilities are outside of the United States. Foreign registrations were off slightly more than domestic at 22 percent.