Updated recordkeeping guidance
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Clarification of FDA's differentiation between the noun "packaging," the verb "packaging" and "packing" is one issue the agency addresses in the third edition of "Questions & Answers Regarding Establishment & Maintenance of Records." The Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition published the document on its website June 7. The guidance answers "various questions" about FDA's final rule on recordkeeping, which the agency published in December 2004 as a result of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. The document was last updated in November (1"The Tan Sheet" Nov. 28, 2005, In Brief). Comments on the guidance may be submitted "at any time," the agency notes...