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Prior Notice: Adding Requirement To Submit Mail Tracking Number for Articles of Food Arriving by International Mail and Timeframe for Post-Refusal and Post-Hold Submissions
The Food and Drug Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on September 25, 2025. It took effect on October 27, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to amend its prior notice regulation to add a requirement that prior notice and food facility registration information be submitted within a certain timeframe after certain notices of refusal or hold have been issued ("post-refusal" and "post-hold" submission) or responses to requests for FDA review have been issued and beginning October 1, 2026, add a requirement that the prior notice for articles of food arriving by international mail include the name of the mail service and a mail tracking number. The rule will also finalize certain technical changes, including those that reflect expanded capabilities of the Automated Broker Interface/Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System (ABI/ACE/ITDS) and the Prior Notice Systems Interface (PNSI). These amendments will improve program efficiency and better enable FDA to protect the U.S. food supply and public health.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-18655
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Food and Drug Administration
- Published
- September 25, 2025
- Takes effect
- October 27, 2025
- Dates
- This rule is effective October 27, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0179
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0910-AI75
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 1
- Topics
- Cosmetics; Drugs; Exports; Food labeling; Imports; Labeling; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 12
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