subpart_subject: "Registration of Food Facilities"
section_number: "1.242"
section_subject: "What does assignment of a registration number mean?"
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 1.242"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 99"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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Assignment of a registration number to a facility means that the facility is registered with FDA. Assignment of a registration number does not in any way convey FDA's approval or endorsement of a facility or its products.