The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) has been insistent FDA fund already-strapped state agencies charged with implementing the massive FSMA program, particularly the new produce rules. Planning is essential as large farms will need to comply with the first federal produce safety rule beginning in January 2018. […]

MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA, U.S. — Under pressure from the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration is exploring more aggressive steps to reduce the incidence of food-borne illness in the United States, said Stephen Ostroff, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at […]

With FSMA rules moving to the compliance stage, food companies must prepare appropriately to best respond to the requirements and, correspondingly, to additional inspections. These inspections are in addition to others, including GFSI with its emphasis on unannounced level audits for some schemes. For example, these audits may be required […]

The US Food and Drug Administration continues its ongoing implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 (FSMA). The law, which aimed to take the first hard look at the American food supply in decades, has resulted in a multipronged assessment and update to how companies selling, manufacturing, processing, […]

The FDA Foods and Veterinary Program is hosting a webinar to discussFDA’s recent announcement of the FSMA draft guidances for current good manufacturing practices requirements for food for animals and the human food by-products for use as animal food. The webinar is set to be held October 14, 2016, 1:00 – 2:00pm, ET. […]

While large food companies and OEMs are well on their way toward compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), many food companies are still struggling to understand all aspects of the new law. The latest FSMA Update Report by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, analyzes responses […]

Many food processing companies are changing equipment procedures to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rather than purchasing new equipment, according to a new report by the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI). “Most companies are NOT [sic] investing in new equipment or equipment upgrades because of […]

Stuart Pape, shareholder at Polsenelli, moderated a roundtable discussion at FDLI’s Food Advertising, Labeling, and Litigation Conference on a stack of regulatory issues that keep general counsels up at night. The panel included: John Packman, senior counsel, Coca-Cola Company; Meredith Olearchik, vice president and associate general counsel, Campbell Soup Company, […]

We wrote earlier this week about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and what it means, from a 30,000 foot perspective, for food companies. Today we are going to dig in a little deeper to one issue that we’ve seen clients wrestle with recently. One core FSMA requirement is a new process […]

On August 24, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued portions of its guidance for complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls rule for human food, entitled Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food: Draft Guidance for Industry. As is customary, a guidance […]