FSMA Fridays: What Does Being FSMA Compliant Really Mean? (Part Four Of Four)

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In the third portion of FSMA Fridays: What Does Being FSMA Compliant Really Mean? SafetyChain’s VP of Marketing, Jill Bender, and the Acheson Group’s Dr. David Acheson handled questions from the webinar’s live audience. Here, in the fourth, and final, portion of the series, the duo will continue answering questions from the live audience around what FSMA compliance really means.

Jill: What are the key processes to put into place to ensure you’re FSMA ready?

David: Well, I think the key processes, when you say to be sure you’re FSMA ready are — I am going to answer this in the context of preventive control and food safety plans. By now, you should be aware of the basic requirements of the food safety plan around understanding your house, potential housing to then rise to have the strict preventive control and your justification for excluding things that you believe don’t rise to that level so that you can present that justification in a regulatory environment should you need to.

Then implementing your preventive controls, validating the preventive controls, making sure that you got the documents to back that up, and the system for monitoring those controls, then the ongoing verification activities to ensure that either they are being monitored and deviations counted and acted on to document corrective actions. Then there is the gap analysis/reanalysis that we have already discussed and the documentation around all of this.