I'm really late to this party, but, oddly enough, this is not completely correct (leaving aside the FDA/FAA/DOT issue that has been straightened out without me).BlackSpinner wrote:
The FDA rules don't apply outside the USA The FDA is an American organization. American rules don't apply outside the USA.
The Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) does, by regulations enacted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, apply to foreign carriers for flights that begin or end at a U.S. airport (or flights operated by a foreign carrier two foreign points if it participates in a codesharing arrangment with a domestic carrier.
The gory details: In April 5, 2000, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (‘‘AIR–21’’), Public Law 106–181, amended the ACAA specifically to cover foreign air carriers. On November 4, 2004, the DOT published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to extend the provisions of Part 382 to foreign carriers (69 FR 64364). On May 13, 2008, the DOT published a final rule (73 FR 27614) amending Part 382 to cover foreign air carriers. That revised final rule became effective on May 13, 2009.
See 14 CFR Part 382
[Dockets OST–2004–19482; OST–2005–22298; OST–2006–23999]
[RINs 2105–AC97; 2105–AC29; 2105–AD41]
More detail than you will ever want here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07 ... -15233.pdf