An on-demand video of “Customs and FDA Enforcement: Challenges for Imports In 2025” is available free for SeafoodSource Premium members and for USD 350 (EUR 308) to non-members through the Complete Digital Ticket: Seafood Expo North America 2025.
Featuring CEO and Founder of FDAImports.Com Benjamin England and Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz Trade Practice Head Jessica Rifkin, the presentation was advertised with the following description:
The session will explore the latest trends in FDA’s and Customs’ regulation of seafood processors, importers, and imported seafood shipments. Learn more about CBP’s targeting of foreign seafood industry in their Forced Labor investigations and Withhold Release Orders, and hear what to expect in 2025 related to FDA enforcement from former FDA thought leaders.
The session will also address FDA’s recent major change in guidance regarding sampling/testing imported seafood subject to the Agency’s Import Alerts. What can industry do to prevent this regulatory guidance from resulting in more seafood refusals without achieving more public health or food safety?
Plus, learn how California’s Proposition 65 continues to be used by private litigants against domestic and foreign seafood products, manufacturers, importers, and distributors.
The more than 25 individual presentations from SENA featured exclusive information and insight from seafood industry experts on a range of topics, including diversity in the seafood industry and how the sector can best navigate current economic, energy, and trade policies.
