FSMA made significant changes to the FDA registration process. Food facilities are now required to provide an email address for registration and must assure that FDA will be permitted to inspect the facility under circumstances permitted by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Additionally, FSMA requires facilities to renew their FDA registrations during each even numbered year. For example, because 2018 is even numbered, food facilities will have to renew their registration later this year between October 1 and December 31. It is very important that facilities comply with renewal requirements. In 2017, FDA removed 28% of food facility registrations from its database. Many of these removals resulted from a failure to properly renew registration as was required in 2016.
