The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its plan to shut down ‘non-production downstream system servers’ daily from 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM ET and throughout the weekends. 

During this daily shutdown, the FDA will not process transactions sent from US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) certification (CERT) environment. 

Effectively, this means that testing with the FDA in the non-production environment can be done by trade partners exclusively from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM ET Monday through Friday. However, this shutdown will not affect the production (PROD) environment.

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