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COVID-19 Update for Food Companies Navigating Quarantine Disruption
March 24, 2020, Covington Alert
Over the past several weeks, states and localities across the country have implemented wide-ranging quarantines and curfews meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some of these measures have impeded food companies’ efforts to manufacture and distribute critical goods to their intended destinations. Even as the federal government underscores the importance of food sector businesses continuing normal operations, manufacturers and distributors may continue to face challenges at the state and local level.
This alert explains the basic structure of the U.S. public health emergency system, including that state and local authorities bear much of the responsibility for responding to health emergencies within their own borders, with the federal government playing a supporting role. It then examines the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) designation of the food and agriculture industry as “Critical Infrastructure Sectors” and the relationship between that designation and state and local law. Finally, this alert explains how companies and their employees can rely on their critical infrastructure entity designations to address any challenges local quarantines pose.
September 26, 2018, Covington Alert
This morning (September 26, 2018), FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance for industry and FDA staff, “Public Availability of Lists of Retail Consignees to Effectuate Certain Human and Animal Food Recalls,” that explains how and when FDA intends to publicize retail consignees that may have received recalled human or animal foods.
June 20, 2018, Covington Alert
Today (June 20, 2018), FDA published in the Federal Register the availability of the first four chapters of a nine-chapter draft guidance (“IA draft guidance”) intended to address the requirements in its final rule, Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (“IA rule”).
April 7, 2016, Covington Alert
Yesterday, FDA published in the Federal Register its final rule establishing sanitary transportation requirements for both human and animal food. The rule is intended to ensure that food transportation practices do not create food safety risks. FDA provides a flexible, risk-based approach that largely aims to allow the transportation industry to continue to use ...