Starting May 27, 2017, the FDA will begin implementing the FDA's Food Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). What is FSVP? A central feature of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the FSVP is intended to be a flexible, risk-based program to verify foreign suppliers and the safety of the food they produce. FSVP will require: Identification of the "FSVP importer" for food products imported into the U.S. The FSVP Importer is responsible for establishing foreign supplier ver