FSMA Fridays: FSMA And GFSI — Alignments And Gaps (Part Two Of Four)

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Safety Chain’s VP of Marketing and Communications, Jill Bender, discusses the similarities and differences, the overlaps and the variances between the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization and the Global Food Safety Initiative.

On the last Friday of every month, Barbara Levin of SafetyChain, a leading provider of food safety and quality assurance automation and compliance solutions, hosts FSMA Fridays™, the leading online forum for the food and beverage community to learn the latest information about the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Featuring Dr. David Acheson, the popular monthly interactive pod/webcast is sponsored by SafetyChain Software and The Acheson Group.

In the first portion of FSMA Fridays: FSMA And GFSI — Alignments And Gaps, Safety Chain’s Jill Bender discussed the most recent news coming from the government regarding FSMA and its implementation. Additionally, the group began discussing some of the key differences and similarities between the Global Food Safety Initiative and the Food Safety Modernization Act. Here, in part two of the series, the panel will continue addressing those issues and tackle FDA, FSMA, and GFSI certifications and accreditations.

Jill: Jennifer, I'll ask you to take the next question, you've touched certainly on this: what are the key differences between GFSI and FMA?

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