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Since the issuance of the Bioterrorism Act Registration regulation, FDA has received more than 180,000 food facility registrations. We appreciate your compliance with this requirement.
To ensure that FDA has received accurate information, within the past several months, we sent a verification notification to each food facility. This verification notification requested that each food facility review and confirm that it should be registered with FDA. Most of you have responded to this request and we thank you for your cooperation.
We have recently discovered an error in our verification process. As a result, verification notifications generated by our system failed to use the optional "preferred mailing address" that some facilities had chosen to include in their registration. We apologize for this oversight and are in the process of correcting the system so that in the future, we will send routine communications only to the preferred mailing address when one has been provided in a registration.
For those food facilities that provided a preferred mailing address that have recently received but not yet responded to a verification notification, we request that you not respond to this notification. FDA plans to resend the verification notification to your facility's preferred e-mail address or preferred mailing address, if we have no response on file from the prior mailing. We ask that the appropriate contact at the preferred mailing address respond to this future notice.
Again we apologize for the error and thank you in advance for your continued cooperation in developing the registration of food facilities database and alert notification system.
If you have any questions concerning the verification notification process, please contact FDA's Help desk 1-800-216-7331 or (301) 575-0156.
