FSMA Fridays: The Top 5 FSMA Challenges And What You Should Be Doing To Prepare (Part Two Of Four)

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In the first portion of FSMA Fridays: The Top 5 FSMA Challenges And What You Should Be Doing To Prepare, Levin and the Acheson Group panel began discussing some of the biggest challenges food producers, manufacturers, and processors will face with FSMA and how to begin addressing those challenges. Here, in part two, Dr. David Acheson addresses supply chain control concerns regarding FSMA, as well as explores what testing protocols food makers will need to follow upon FSMA’s implementation.

On the last Friday of every month, 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.

Barbara: Let’s come back to you, David, for the third of the top five challenges. If you’re a registered firm, you need to be building a supply chain management program. So, a couple of points, how do you know if you have to register? What should you be doing now? I know that when we’ve spoken in the past, you see this as being perhaps one of the biggest challenges, so maybe you can address why.

David: Sure, Barbara. How do you know if you have to register? Well, we talked about this before and the requirement to register has nothing to do with FSMA, this is a requirement that came in as part of the bio-terrorism act. So, the requirement to register isn’t new, but basically, as I’m sure everybody who’s on this call knows, and I’m sure everybody’s registered, if you’re packing, holding, processing, manufacturing food, it requires you to register with the Food Drug Administration, and the one thing that did change in FSMA was to re-register every two years, and we’ve just had the second round of that at the end of 2014, so the next round will be 2016 when everybody has to re-register.

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