The public health of America is a foremost priority – and FDA recently issued guidance formally recognizing the D-U-N-S Number as an acceptable unique facility identifier (UFI) for the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP). PROGRAM MISSION The Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. Through this legislation, the agency intends to improve public health by adopting a modern, preventive, and risk-based approach to food safety regulation. THE CHALLENGE With approximately 200,000 domestic and foreign facilities required to register with the FDA, the agency’s regulatory burden is set to grow amidst an expanding global supply chain.

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