Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP): FDA Warning Letter to Life & Food Inc., 2026-06-15
Letter issued · posted to fda.gov .
Subject as published: Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP)
TL;DR
At a glance: FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations issued a Warning Letter to Life & Food Inc. on 2026-06-15 regarding Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). The letter references 21 CFR 1.500, 21 CFR 1.502(a), 21 CFR 1.512, 21 CFR 1.512(b)(1)(i). The verbatim letter is published on fda.gov.
Argus analysis
Life & Food Inc. received a Warning Letter from FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations, dated 2026-06-15, regarding Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). The letter follows an FDA inspection and is classified by Argus HQ as low severity, consistent with the matters detailed in the letter body below.
The published letter cites 21 CFR 1.500, 21 CFR 1.502(a), 21 CFR 1.512, 21 CFR 1.512(b)(1)(i). Warning Letters citing these sections generally concern the matters detailed in the letter body below. The full citation language and supporting observations are in the verbatim letter linked below — Argus HQ does not add citations beyond what FDA published.
FDA Warning Letters carry a 15-business-day response window for the recipient to detail corrective actions. Peer compliance teams in the same product category typically use a letter like this one as an external audit trigger, checking whether their own quality system has documented coverage for the cited sections and whether their CAPA log would withstand the same line of inspection questioning.
Severity context
Low severity. Procedural or narrow scope; most peer companies resolve in the 15-business-day response window without structural change.
Regulatory background
FDA Warning Letters are administratively non-binding but signal that recurring non-compliance may escalate to injunction, seizure, import alert, or Application Integrity Policy invocation.
What peer compliance teams typically do next
Most compliance officers at peer companies use a Warning Letter against a named entity as a checklist for their own CAPA program. Common steps: pull the verbatim FDA letter; map each cited 21 CFR section against the team’s SOP library; confirm CAPA coverage; brief the QMR (Quality Management Review) on whether the cited subject matter is in scope for the next internal audit. The 15-business-day response window applies to the cited entity, not to peers — but a documented internal review against the cited subjects is what regulators expect to see if a peer is later inspected on the same topic.
Excerpt from the FDA Warning Letter (public domain, 17 USC §105)
WARNING LETTER Life & Food Inc. MARCS-CMS 731887 — June 15, 2026 More Warning Letters Warning Letters About Warning and Close-Out Letters Delivery Method: Via Express Delivery Product: Food & Beverages Recipient: Recipient Name Duncan Zheng Recipient Title Owner/Director Life & Food Inc. 1050 E Flamingo Road, #S107 #2094 Las Vegas , NV 89119-7427 United States sales@lifefoodpro.com Issuing Office: Office of Inspections and Investigations United States June 15, 2026 WARNING LETTER Re: CMS # 731887 Dear Mr. Zheng: From May 4, 2026, through May 7, 2026, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) inspection of Life & Food Inc., located at 1050 E Flamingo Road, #S107 #2094, Las Vegas, NV 89119-7427. This inspection was conducted to determine compliance with the requirements of section 805 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 384a) and the implementing FSVP regulation in 21 CFR part 1, subpart L. The FSVP regulation requires that importers perform certain risk-based activities to verify that human and/or animal food they import into the United States has been produced in a manner that meets applicable United States food safety standards. You may find information relating to the FSVP regulation and your responsibilities to comply with the regulation through links in FDA’s FSVP web page at https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma/fsma-final-rule-foreign-supplier-verification-programs-fsvp-importers-food-humans-and-animals. During the inspection, we found that you are not in compliance with the requirements of 21 CFR part 1, subpart L for the foods you import. Because of these significant violations, you are not in compliance with section 805 of the FD&C Act. At the conclusion of the inspection, our investigator provided you with a Form FDA 483a FSVP Observations. We acknowledge receipt of your response, dated May 14, 2026, in which you stated that Life & Food Inc. operates as a Very Small Importer (VSI) and follows modified requirements. You also provided VSI Eligibility Declarations for (b)(4) , and written assurances for your foreign suppliers, (b)(4) , and (b)(4) . We are unable to evaluate the adequacy of your response because you have not provided supporting documentation demonstrating your corrective actions. Specifically, you did not provide documentation such as tax forms or income statements to substantiate your VSI eligibility. Additionally, the written assurances you submitted appear to be templates prepared by your firm rather than independent documents provided by your foreign suppliers. Furthermore, even if you meet the definition of a VSI, you are still required to develop and maintain a written FSVP, which you have not provided. To date, no additional FSVP documents have been received by FDA. Your significant violations of the FSVP regulation are as follows: You did not develop, maintain, and follow an FSVP, as required by section 805 of t…
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Read the full letter on fda.gov ↗Frequently asked questions
- Has Life & Food Inc. had FDA enforcement actions before?
- This is the only FDA Warning Letter Argus HQ has on file for Life & Food Inc. as of 2026-06-30. Argus ingests new FDA enforcement records daily.
- What FDA violations was Life & Food Inc. cited for?
- The FDA Warning Letter to Life & Food Inc. (issuing office: Office of Inspections and Investigations) cites: Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). Classification: Warning Letter.
- When did FDA issue the warning letter to Life & Food Inc.?
- FDA issued the letter (MARCS-CMS 731887) on 2026-06-15 and posted it publicly on fda.gov on 2026-06-30.
- Is the FDA warning letter to Life & Food Inc. publicly available?
- Yes. The full verbatim letter is published at fda.gov. Argus HQ links directly to the source: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/life-food-inc-731887-06152026.
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methodology
The analysis above is produced by Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 against the verbatim FDA Warning Letter excerpt and is brand-voice lint-checked before publish. The TL;DR is the same summary that ships in the customer email digest. Severity is auto-classified by Argus from the subject string and letter body using rules documented in lib/ingestion/fda-warning-letters.ts.
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"Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP): FDA Warning Letter to Life & Food Inc., 2026-06-15." Argus HQ Research, Digital Empire LLC, 2026, argushq.ai/fda/warning-letter/fda-wl-life-and-food-inc-2026-06-15-warning-letter.
Argus HQ Research. "Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP): FDA Warning Letter to Life & Food Inc., 2026-06-15." Digital Empire LLC. Accessed July 13, 2026. https://argushq.ai/fda/warning-letter/fda-wl-life-and-food-inc-2026-06-15-warning-letter.
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