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OIG Report Finds FDA Recall Process is Slow
As our readership is well aware, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) equips the FDA with mandatory recall authority to remove a potentially dangerous food product from the marketplace when a company…
A Seat at the Table
FSMA Implementation Update: Written Assurances, Food Defense, Human Food By-Products, and More
By Joe Levitt, Maile Hermida, Elizabeth Fawell, Leigh Barcham
FDA recently shared information regarding a number of ongoing FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation issues. This post summarizes updates and developments regarding the following matters: 1. The written…
Food Safety News
Transparency, temperature, tenacity can tame FSMA terrors
By Ron Chapek
The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in 2011. The act granted the FDA a number of new powers and enforcement abilities, including mandatory recall authority…
Food Safety News
FSVP compliance with FSMA achievable with A, B, C approach
By Roy Costa
Provisions of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, were enacted in 2015. They mandate that foreign suppliers provide the same level of food…
The Daily Intake
FDA Releases Small Entity Compliance Guide for FSMA Sanitary Transportation Rule
As previously covered on this blog, on April 6, 2016, FDA published a final rule to implement sanitary food transportation requirements under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Click here for a…
A Seat at the Table
FDA Issues Guidance on Co-Manufacturer Supplier Verification Under FSMA
By Joe Levitt, Maile Hermida, Elizabeth Fawell
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) recently issued a guidance document entitled “Supply-Chain Program Requirements and Co-Manufacturer Supplier Approval and Verification for Human Food and Animal Food: Guidance for…
Food Safety News
Survey probes food industry fears about food safety changes
By News Desk
What keeps food safety and quality operators up at night? Its a question about feelings not usually included in an industry survey, but the folks at The Acheson Group and…
Food Safety & Environmental Health Blog
Changing Dynamics in the Food Safety Industry
By Roy Costa
The food safety industry is diverse, encompassing everything from laboratories to auditors, trainers and consultants. The industry operators rely on such outsourced services for a variety of reasons, but having…
Food Safety News
The devil is in the details, and not just on All Hallows Eve
The food manufacturing industry is subject to regulations and scrutiny that few other industries are: social pressure is ever-present, as news of infection or disease outbreak caused by food-borne pathogens…
The Daily Intake
FDA Releases Guidance Documents Concerning Animal Food CGMPs and the FSMA “Solely Engaged” Exemptions
As previously covered on this blog, the Final Rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals, 80 Fed. Reg. 56170 (Sept. 17, 2015)…