COAC Working Group to Review FDA, CBP Data Quality, Says Kerlikowske
CBP and the Food and Drug Administration will revive work within the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) through a new project aimed at improving data quality, CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske said during the May 22 COAC meeting. The group will aim to improve communication, so that "when restrictions are placed on certain commodities coming in that are impacted by FDA regulations, that we work and we look at how we can move more expeditiously," he said. Kerlikowske also said a Federal Register notice to initiate the Trusted Trader pilot program should come soon and is now on his desk for signature. The pilot would combine Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism with Importer Self-Assessment .
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At the request of FDA, CBP will seek COAC recommendations regarding "how to improve data quality reported to both FDA and CBP before the implementation of our Single Window," said the One U.S. Government at the Border working group status report (here). "Currently up to 25% of data reported has known quality errors and FDA is seeking advisement from COAC through CBP on how this quality can be improved." The FDA working group had been on hiatus since last year, but is now being tasked with this project. Data quality is pivotal to making decisions on admissibility, said Domenic Veneziano, director of FDA's Division of Import Operations.