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Trading Partners May Exhale: FDA Releases Guidance Exercising a Year-Long Period of Enforcement Discretion Related to DSCSA Enforcement of Certain Provisions

FDA Law Blog

The Guidance specifically states that it is issuing the Guidance – applicable to trading partners including manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, and repackagers – to address industry “readiness” to comply with the DSCSA’s provisions. Drug manufacturers have had electronic systems in place since 2017.

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This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Family and Food(borne Illness Prevention)

FDA Law Blog

But as noted above, identifying points in the food supply chain, the source of the product, and where contamination may have occurred can be a long and difficult process. What information firms must maintain and share under the rule depends on the type of activities they perform in the supply chain with respect to an FTL food.