How Did We Get to FSMA? Food is about trust, when people consume food, they assume they’re consuming something that nourishes, not damages. However, when safety and quality standards are not maintained in the supply chain, distribution of food can pose serious health risks to the consumers. Recent food outbreaks […]

FDA began issuing the final rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act in August—complex rules, each extending to hundreds of pages. To bring our readers in-depth insights to these rules, QA asked subject experts to delve into specific aspects of the rules to present their analysis of the topic and its impact […]

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has published a new final rule intended to improve its ability to determine the source of foodborne illnesses linked to ground beef. Based on lessons learned from previous outbreak investigations, FSIS is requiring that all makers of raw ground beef products keep adequate records of […]

Continental Fresh LLC, a Miami importer, has fully implemented a case-level labeling and traceability system. The company also plans to apply Produce Traceability Initiative-compliant labels on each of its cases of Atlas Fresh-branded cucumbers and winter squash, according to a news release. The recent Mexican cucumbers salmonella outbreak as well […]

Late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives released a $1.1-trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, which is Sept. 30, 2016. Lobbyists for full funding of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) were pleased with the numbers. The Food and Drug Administration […]

Five of the seven major rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) have been finalized. This means: if you hadn’t already begun to do so, it’s time to look toward compliance, and determine what components of each rule apply to your facility and what you need to do by […]

We have reviewed and analyzed FDA‘s recently-issued final rules to implement three major provisions of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), namely those related to the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), the Third-Party Accreditation Program, and the Produce Safety Standards.  Below, we provide a brief synopsis of each final rule, as well […]

This week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced plans to host informational sessions on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act Final Rules for Produce Safety and Prevention Controls for Animal Food. The purpose of the informational sessions is to provide industry with an overview of the […]

Food manufacturers are focusing on quality big-time thanks to tougher industry standards like the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to a survey recently commissioned by Aptean, an enterprise software provider. The survey, designed to gauge the sentiment of Aptean customers with respect to FSMA, found that more than 80 […]

FDA has issued its long-awaited final rules to implement the produce safety, foreign supplier verification program (FSVP), and accredited third-party certification provisions under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).  The rules are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on November 27, 2015.  The general compliance dates for the Produce Safety rule […]