Featured FSMA/Safety Content

1. Developments Solve Sensor Problems In Food And Beverage Industry 3/19/2019

   Food manufacturers face numerous condensation and calibration drift challenges caused by CIP/SIP. Explore solutions for those challenges that ensure safe, high-quality products are consistently made.

2. Understanding Food Label Regulations Of The U.S., EU, And China 9/25/2018

   There are an increasing number of ways in which a label might now fail to meet one of those specifications, making a strict label quality control process more necessary than ever.

3. FSMA Fridays: Food Safety & Quality Operations Survey Results (Part One Of Four) 10/6/2017

   SafetyChain Software’s VP of Marketing, Jill Bender is joined by The Acheson Group’s (TAG) founder and CEO Dr. David Acheson to discuss the results of a recent SafetyChain/TAG survey for food safety and quality operations professionals.

4. Ensuring Compliance For New Food Safety Standards 7/13/2017

   This white paper looks at the most common food safety standards, their latest requirements, and explains how a product inspection program can help food manufacturers meet these requirements.

5. FSMA's Final Rule On Food Defense: What You Need To Know 6/16/2016

   The FDA has released a pre-publication version of the last of the major FSMA rules: Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration. The objective of the rule is to thwart an intentional attack on the food supply that results in widespread public health harm, whether conducted by an outsider, or someone within your facility such as a disgruntled employee.

6. FSMA's Final Sanitary Transportation Rule Provides Greater Flexibility 5/23/2016

   With the publication of the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food rule, the food industry now has six of the seven foundational rules that establish a modern, risk-based framework for food safety. When compared with the original proposed rule, this final rule is flexible and takes into account the transportation industry’s existing best practices that prevent food safety risks. Taking into account comments from approximately 240 submissions from individuals, some of the major revisions address efforts to protect food from contamination during transportation.

7. Preparing To Meet The Final Requirements Of FSMA 4/12/2016

   FSMA places the responsibility for food safety squarely on food producers. The dates by which those requirements will take effect have now been finalized and some have even passed. This paper recommends actions food processors should now take to meet the full requirements of FSMA.

8. A FSMA Rundown: Where The Industry Currently Stands On Preventive Controls Rules 12/28/2015

   The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act is designed to standardize food safety within the U.S. and countries importing food to the U.S. Now that the Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF) rules have been finalized, compliance dates are just a couple of years away, and even some documentation is required in less than one year.

9. 5 Eye-Opening Facts About Recordkeeping Under FSMA 7/15/2015

   Although food companies have lots of experience creating records, these records have never been subject to the type of scrutiny they soon will face by the Food FDA under FSMA. The FDA will not only assess whether companies adopt programs that are adequate, but also will inspect whether these programs are consistently implemented.

10. How FSMA Is Impacting Pet Food And Animal Feed 2/2/2015

    The melamine contamination of pet food in 2007 generated over 14,000 reports in the first four weeks after it was discovered. A salmonella outbreak in South Carolina led to a recall of 30,000 tons of dry dog and cat food after 47 people became sick after handling the contaminated food. Unlike safeguards in place to protect human food, there were no regulations governing most animal foods during those food safety events. Now, under FSMA, the FDA has a rule for preventive controls for food for animals going into effect in late summer 2015. How will this rule affect the industry?