For small food importers under the Foreign Supplier Verification Program: your supplier list is checked against FDA Import Alerts, Warning Letters and Import Refusals, you get an alert when something changes, and every check is kept as a dated record for your FSVP file.
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Importer with 38 foreign suppliers of spices and dried fruit. Wednesday: one supplier is added to the red list of an Import Alert. The alert names the supplier, the alert number and the date; the record shows every earlier check of that supplier for the reevaluation file.
Choose your planUnder the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), an importer of food into the United States has to know its foreign suppliers. Part of that duty is looking at what the FDA has published about each of them: Import Alerts, Warning Letters and Import Refusals. The rule asks for a reevaluation of a supplier at least every three years, or when new information comes to light, and an FDA listing is exactly that kind of new information.
All three sources are public. Anyone can open the FDA pages and search the red and green lists of an Import Alert, the Warning Letters and the refusal data. What the public pages do not do is watch your own list. For a small importer with dozens of suppliers this means searching each name again and again and hoping that nothing changed in between.
FSVP Supplier Watch keeps your supplier list and checks every supplier against Import Alerts, Warning Letters and Import Refusals. When a supplier is added to a red list, moved to a green list, named in a Warning Letter or shows up in a refusal, you get an email that names the supplier, the source and the date. You decide what it means for your next shipment and for the supplier approval.
Each check is stored with its date and the result, also when nothing changed. When the FDA asks how you keep your supplier evaluation up to date, you open the supplier and show the history of checks instead of collecting screenshots from different pages. The record follows the supplier through renewals and reevaluations.
An alert is short and concrete: which supplier, which source, which alert number or letter, the date it appeared and a link to the public FDA page. The same change is not sent twice, and a supplier that leaves a red list is reported as well, because that is also new information for the reevaluation. A weekly summary lists every supplier that was checked, so the team can see that the watch is running even in a quiet week.
Setting up takes one sitting. You upload your supplier list from a spreadsheet with the names, countries and FEI numbers you already have, confirm the match for each supplier once, and choose who in your team receives the alerts. A new supplier is added in the same way, and a supplier you no longer use is simply archived with its history.
The service is built for small importers, brokers who keep FSVP files for their clients and brands that import under their own name. It reads only public FDA data and keeps your records. It does not act as your FSVP agent, does not replace your hazard analysis or supplier verification activities, and is not affiliated with the FDA.
From public FDA pages: Import Alerts with their red and green lists, Warning Letters and Import Refusals.
No. It keeps your supplier checks in order; your plan and verification activities stay with you.
Yes, from a spreadsheet with supplier names, countries and FEI numbers.
The people in your team you choose, by email.
Not yet. The service is in preparation, and we are checking whether importers need it.