SAN RAFAEL, CA–(Marketwired – July 19, 2016) – SafetyChain Software, leaders in food safety & quality program management solutions, is pleased to announce an extended July FSMA Fridays session that will focus on deciphering what being FSMA compliant really means. FSMA Fridays, SafetyChain’s popular monthly series hosted with Dr. David Acheson and The Acheson Group, examines the […]

The last of FDA’s seven “foundational” rules mandated under the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 (FSMA) was published at the end of last month, just a few days before the May 31, 2016 deadline agreed to by the Agency when it settled a lawsuit related to its implementation of […]

Food safety expert Gary Kestenbaum provides thought, opinions and advice on the latest FSMA rules governing transportation of non-comestibles in the food industry and its application to packaging.     In April of this year, the FDA finalized and published its latest FSMA rule pertaining to the Sanitary Transportation of Human […]

Over the past two months, we have been part of FDA delegations visiting three very diverse countries—Canada, China and Mexico—to discuss food safety. As we are doing in the United States with the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), each country we visited is addressing their national food safety objectives in […]

State agriculture officials will not be inspecting Oregon farms for compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act anytime soon under a resolution unanimously approved last week by the Oregon State Board of Agriculture. The resolution, adopted June 8 at the board’s meeting in John Day, OR, states that since the Act’s produce safety rule will […]

The FDA on May 26 released the final of the seven rules that comprise the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), this last piece aimed at preventing intentional adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm to public health. Essentially, it charges larger companies, both foreign and domestic, with coming […]

  On April 18, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published its final rule, titled Procedures for Handling Retaliation Complaints Under Section 402 of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Modernization Act. OSHA’s final rule details the agency’s procedures for investigating retaliation complaints under the FSMA. Among other amendments, the FSMA modified […]

With its publication of the Final Rule for Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration, FDA has now finalized all seven major rules that implement the core of FSMA. The Intentional Adulteration rule is intended to help to prevent wide-scale public health harm by requiring companies in the United States […]

As Food Chemical News reported, the spring 2016 Unified Agenda, which lays out the administration’s regulatory plan for FDA, did not include the FSMA laboratory rule in its list of upcoming regulations. The rule was listed in the fall 2015 update, but FDA told FCN the agency’s priority at this point was to issue FSMA […]

  The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) added section 1012 to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) to provide added protection for employees who “blow the whistle” and come forward with information about potential food safety problems within their companies or facilities.  Although Section 1012 took effect upon FSMA’s enactment in […]