FSMA Fridays: What To Expect From The FDA And FSMA In 2015 (Part Three Of Five)

Check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series

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.

In the second portion of FSMA Fridays: What To Expect From The FDA And FSMA In 2015, Safety Chain’s Barbara Levin discussed with the Acheson Group’s Dr. David Acheson and Melanie Neumann FSMA’s finalization and objectives the FDA may tackle outside of FSMA’s seven pillar rules. Here, in part three of the series, the panel continues the discussion of the topic at hand, specifically tackling what companies should be doing now to prepare for FSMA.

Barbara: What should companies be doing now? Should they be waiting for the final, or are there things — and I think I know this answer to this one — that they absolutely should be doing today?

Melanie: I would absolutely, 100 percent concur with you, Barbara. They should start today. They should not wait.  There is a lot to these rules, and it's going to take time, treasure, and talent to effectively implement these changes. That is no understatement. The period of time, though, I understand. Between the proposal and the final rules, some companies are going to question, “What do I do now? I don't 100 percent know or have visibility into what exactly is going to be expected of me.” I get that.

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