# Prior Notice: Adding Requirement To Submit Mail Tracking Number for Articles of Food Arriving by International Mail and Timeframe for Post-Refusal and Post-Hold Submissions
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2025-09-25 · Effective 2025-10-27 · 90 FR 46045
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-18655
- **Category:** hospital-facility
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 46045
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2025-09-25
- **Effective date:** 2025-10-27
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0179
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to amend its prior notice regulation to add a requirement that prior notice and food facility registration information be submitted within a certain timeframe after certain notices of refusal or hold have been issued ("post-refusal" and "post-hold" submission) or responses to requests for FDA review have been issued and beginning October 1, 2026, add a requirement that the prior notice for articles of food arriving by international mail include the name of the mail service and a mail tracking number. The rule will also finalize certain technical changes, including those that reflect expanded capabilities of the Automated Broker Interface/Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System (ABI/ACE/ITDS) and the Prior Notice Systems Interface (PNSI). These amendments will improve program efficiency and better enable FDA to protect the U.S. food supply and public health.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/25/2025-18655/prior-notice-adding-requirement-to-submit-mail-tracking-number-for-articles-of-food-arriving-by)
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