The Chinese New Year isn’t just a celebration — it’s a major moment for global supply chains 🌏🚢 With factories and families celebrate, international shipping can slow dramatically.
Exportar desde los Estados Unidos
Exportar desde Estados Unidos ofrece acceso a mercados globales y grandes oportunidades de crecimiento. Sin embargo, el proceso también implica desafíos importantes que pueden afectar tanto a exportadores nuevos como experimentados. La falta de preparación puede generar retrasos, costos adicionales e incluso la pérdida de la carga.
What is FSVP? Everything You Need to Know
What is FSVP?
FSVP is the international trade law that has been passed under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA, read more about it here.) FSVP is known as the Foreign Supplier Verification Program. This is a set of programs that are in place to validate and verify that our food safety standards are being upheld.
The purpose of FSMA is to put as many preventative measures between infected food and consumers as possible. With expansions already in place for food production and food growers, the next focus is on importers, which is where FSVP comes in.
What Kind of Imports are Affected?
Food exclusively. If you are a food importer with the intention of reselling the products, you will have to abide by FSVP standards.
How does it affect my Job?
As an Importer, the rules of your job are now expanded. You now have two additional tasks that need to be obeyed.
You must be Food Safety Ready – The concept behind FSVP is that warehouses, where food comes in, should be held to the same standards as restaurants and supermarkets. You must now follow similar food safety rules. For Example, in New York, it is required that all food surfaces and storage spaces be at least 6 inches off the ground at all times, New York Warehouses must now abide by this law as well.
Your Overseas Partners are Food Safe – Once you have declared your warehouse ‘food, safe, and ready,’ you must now begin vouching for your importers. You are required to inspect the delivery methods and the state of the food when it enters your warehouse and communicate this information to the FDA and your trade partners.
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