TraceGains Advises New 2015 FSMA Fees

Westminster, CO -- (SBWire) -- 08/06/2014 --The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its fee rates for fiscal year (FY) 2015 for certain domestic and foreign facility reinspections. Jennifer Brusco, Marketing Specialist for TraceGains, informed food manufacturers in the current company blog, “Failure to comply with a recall order, and importer reinspections, authorized by the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as amended by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), is subject to the newly announced fees.”

The fees will be effective on October 1, 2014, and will remain in effect until September 30, 2015. According to the FDA's announcement, the FDA will use the following rates when charging fees in FY 2015:

- Hourly rate if domestic travel is required: $217
- Hourly rate if foreign travel is required: $305

Fees will be assessed for reinspection conducted under section 704 of the FD&C Act to determine whether corrective actions have been implemented and are effective and compliance has been achieved.

Reinspection with regard to domestic facilities is defined as "one or more inspections conducted under section 704 subsequent to an inspection conducted under such provision which identified non-compliance materially related to a food safety requirement of the Act, specifically to determine whether compliance has been achieved to the Secretary's satisfaction."

To read the entire blog, go to: http://bit.ly/1AHyvO7

About TraceGains
(http://www.tracegains.com) provides food and ingredient manufacturers and brokers with a web-based, full-service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution that automates the management of supplier risk, data, and documentation, making companies 365 Audit Ready™.

TraceGains’ cloud-based SaaS solution works with in-house solutions such as quality management systems (QMS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and product life-cycle management (PLM), to close the loop on upstream risk. This solution provides collaborative supplier management, and eases compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), and internal business compliance requirements including hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP).

TraceGains digitizes all incoming supplier documents, making them easily searchable. TraceGains also extracts critical data and analyzes them against customer-specific business and compliance rules, alerting stakeholders to any non-compliance.

TraceGains’ customers boast a four to six month return on their investment. TraceGains is Food Logistics Top 100 software and technology providers.

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TraceGains, Inc.
http://www.tracegains.com
Jennifer Brusco
Marketing Strategist
pr@tracegains.com
720-465-9400