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[foodie13]

Hi All, I recently joined a new company and we have three different buildings in the same industrial complex (all with a different address). We consider them all one campus - one facility is used for ingredient storage and part of our batching process. The second facility (primary) is where our headquarters/offices are as well as the main production line including the primary and secondary packaging area.  The third building is our finished goods warehouse and we also have a repack line there which we split our products into multi packs as well as offer this service to outside customers (they bring in their packaged finished product in cans and we sort the cans into the multi packs).  

 

My question is, for the purposes of FDA food facility registration, is it ok to have all three buildings covered by one registration number despite the 3 different addresses? There are other companies in adjacent buildings in this complex, so no, we do not have the entire campus to ourselves. 

 

Thank you!

[SQFconsultant]

Yes - all in one.

[foodie13]

Thank you for the response! 

For anyone else that may need be in this situation in the future.. I reached out to FDA yesterday (2.5 hrs wait time  ) and the representative suggested I put the other two addresses in section two as the second line of the address. She hadn't heard of this situation before and wasn't sure how else to make sure all three buildings are included. Surely we can't be the only ones who have been in this situation?  Anyway, the section two portion of our registration looks a little funny with all the addresses crammed in there, but I think it will do the job. 

[LR-QA]

To revisit this topic, I have a manufacturing facility that houses all ingredients and finished goods (temporarily). The finished goods, which have no special storage requirements (ambient temperature, sealed packages), are then transported to an offsite warehouse and stored until shipment. Does that offsite warehouse also need to be registered with the FDA as a holding facility?

[kingstudruler1]

To revisit this topic, I have a manufacturing facility that houses all ingredients and finished goods (temporarily). The finished goods, which have no special storage requirements (ambient temperature, sealed packages), are then transported to an offsite warehouse and stored until shipment. Does that offsite warehouse also need to be registered with the FDA as a holding facility?

 yes.  there are some expemptions.  I dont think you would meet those.

 

 

A. Who Must Register? A.1 Who must register under the food facility registration requirements? If you are the owner, operator, or agent in charge of either a domestic or foreign facility that is engaged in manufacturing/processing, packing, or holding of food for human or animal consumption in the United States, you must register with FDA, unless you are exempt under 21 CFR 1.226 from the requirement to register. If you are an owner, operator, or agent in charge of a domestic facility, you must register your facility whether or not the food from the facility enters interstate commerce (21 CFR 1.225(b)). If you are the owner, operator, or agent in charge of a facility, you may authorize an individual to register your facility on your behalf (see 21 CFR 1.225© and 1.230(a)). A foreign facility’s U.S. agent may, but is not required to, register the facility (21 CFR 1.230).

 

https://www.fda.gov/...th-Edition).pdf