As per FDA regulation, food facilities that are registered with FDA are required to renew such registration between Oct – Dec every even numbered year (2022, 2024, 2026…). If a facility fails to renew the registration by the deadline, FDA will consider such registration as expired & remove it from the FDA system.
Such facilities that wish to market their products in US will need to re-register with FDA. Facilities looking to re-register due to incomplete biennial renewal will need to provide their old FDA registration number on new application & FDA will reassign the same registration number to them. If the registration was cancelled because of any other reason, facilities will need to submit a new registration & will be assigned a new FDA registration number.
Beginning October 1, 2020, domestic and foreign facilities will need to provide a UFI (Unique Facility Identifier) recognized as acceptable to FDA in existing and new food facility registrations. Currently, FDA recognizes DUNS (Data Universal Numbering System) as the only acceptable UFI for the food facility registrations. FDA will not confirm a facility’s biennial renewal or assign a registration number if a valid DUNS number is not provided on registration.
Liberty Management Group Ltd. can help you with FDA registration, re-registration and DUNS.
Namrata
Regulatory Consultant
support@libertymanagement.us