FSMA Fridays: Everything You've Wanted To Know About FSMA, But Were Afraid To Ask (Part Five Of Five)

Check out Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four of this series

In the fourth portion of FSMA Fridays: Everything You've Wanted To Know About FSMA, But Were Afraid To Ask, Barbara Levin of SafetyChain and Dr. David Acheson of the Acheson Group continued their question and answer session with members of the food industry around the most-pressing concerns of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Here, in part five of the series, the duo continues answering questions from the webinar’s live audience.

Barbara: This question is from Dennis, “If your waste is used for a dairy farm, will this be regulated by FSMA as well, and if so, what kind of regulations do you think will be required?”

David: Yes, it will, and let me interpret the question a little bit, or say how I see that question. If some of your food waste — your waste during your manufacturing of human foods and some portion of it is going to a dairy farm — that is animal feed. That food for the dairy animals falls under the preventive control rule for animals. There will be a need to maintain that product in a way that it doesn’t render it unsafe for the animals, which gets back to the earlier question around GMPs, and the risks for that product will have to be controlled.

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