CMA Global Partners
CMA Global Partners is a full service agency providing guidance and assistance to foreign suppliers and US importers of consumer food, beverage, and nutritional supplements products.
CMA Global Partners
CMA Global Partners is a Washington, DC based advisory firm assisting manufacturers of food, nutrition, and agricultural products from around the globe to navigate and succeed in highly competitive and complex North American and European marketplaces.
We help our clients with a wide range of advisory services: regulatory compliance, food safety and protection, market research, product selection and development, trade partner identification, import and warehousing solutions, and many other services.
Our clients and partners are small and medium-size manufacturers, technology firms, exporters and importers in the US and Europe, NGOs, government agencies and financial institutions. We identify like-minded producers in the agriculture, food production and nutrition industries and enable cooperation, trade partnerships, and knowledge transfer across the globe – always with the goal to develop profitable, sustainable businesses across borders.
In fact, our abilities to forge and manage partnerships or alliances is reflected in our corporate name: CMA stands for Cooperative Marketing Alliances.
Food Export to the USA: What do you need to know
The US is the largest and one one of the most dynamic, transparent and attractive food and beverage markets in the world. But how do you get your product into the country? What are the steps needed to comply with food regulations, to find import partners, to get your first orders, and to attract consumers to your products?
The Foreign Supplier Verification Program
US food importers bear the financial and legal responsibility to ensure that the products they introduce into the US comply with US food safety standards. By law, they have to set up an elaborate Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) that will be audited by the FDA.
All About the FSMA Food Safety Plan
In 2011, US Congress passed the groundbreaking Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the largest overhaul of the US food regulation since the 1930s. The law prescribes very specific steps for food processors, manufacturers, warehouses and transport companies to verify, validate and record the hazards and preventive controls needed to keep food safe. Foreign suppliers must also follow these steps for their products to be exported to the US. In essence, the the responsibility and liability for food safety rests now with the producers, not the regulators.To learn more, click on the link below:
US Food Regulations: Updates
This section provides a brief synopsis of major regulatory initiatives and issues pertaining to food and dietary supplements, as published by the FDA (US Food & Drug Administration), USDA (US Department of Agriculture), TTB (Tobacco and Alcohol Tax and Tariff Bureau) and other agencies, along with our comments.
Food Export to the USA: What do you need to know
The US is the largest and one one of the most dynamic, transparent and attractive food and beverage markets in the world. But how do you get your product into the country? What are the steps needed to comply with food regulations, to find import partners, to get your first orders, and to attract consumers to your products?
Food Export to the USA: What do you need to know
The US is the largest and one one of the most dynamic, transparent and attractive food and beverage markets in the world. But how do you get your product into the country? What are the steps needed to comply with food regulations, to find import partners, to get your first orders, and to attract consumers to your products?