What are the major components of the Bioterrorism Act?
• The owner, operator, or agent in charge of a facility is responsible for submitting the registration form to FDA; • The registration form must include the name and address of each facility at which, and all trade names under which the registrant does business, the registrant conducts business. Foreign facilities also must include the name of the U.S. agent for the facility; • FDA also may require each facility to submit the general food or feed category of the food or feed manufactured, processed, packed, or held at the facility. FDA plans to require this; • Foreign facilities exporting food or feed to the United States are required to register unless the food undergoes further processing or packaging by another facility outside the United States; • Facilities excluded from the registration requirement are: farms, restaurants and other retail facilities, nonprofit food establishments in which food is prepared for or served directly to the consumer, and fishing vessels (except those e
