FSMA 204 Moved to 2028. Your Retail Customers’ Deadlines Did Not.
Two dates matter to a food manufacturer shipping into mass retail right now. Only one of them moved.
The other date did not move, because it was never the FDA’s date to move. Your largest customers set it, most of them set it in 2025, and several of them set it before the original federal deadline.
The federal date is real and it is coming. But the work that gets a supplier ready for July 2028 is the same work that answers a buyer’s traceability challenge next quarter and a mock recall next month. Building for the customer’s clock covers the regulator’s clock. The reverse is not true.
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