The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certification provides the agency’s official attestation concerning a product’s regulatory or marketing status, based on available information at the time FDA issues the certificate. The certificate is issued based on FDA’s experts’ review of the results of laboratory, animal and human clinical testing done by manufacturers.
Some countries require that consumables imported from the United States be accompanied by an FDA certificate that has been apostilled or legalized. Such FDA document should be authenticated at the US Department of State, the embassy of the destination country in Washington DC or the Secretary of States, as the case may be.