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CRITICAL ISSUE: FSMA Preventive -a-glance controls at The Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food proposal issued by the Food and Drug Administration focuses on six preventive controls every food and beverage manufacturer must consider when conducting a food safety analysis. The controls include: Hazard analysis: Identifies and evaluates known or reasonably foreseeable hazards for each type of food manufactured, processed, packed or held at a facility. Preventive controls: Requires controls to be identified and implemented to provide assurances that hazards that are reasonably likely to occur will be significantly minimized or prevented. Monitoring: Provides assurances that preventive controls are consistently performed and records are kept to document monitoring. Corrective actions: Requires plant management to establish and enact written corrective action procedures in the event that preventive controls fail and an unanticipated problem occurs. Plant management would be required to correct problems, minimize the likelihood of reoccurrence, evaluate the food for safety and prevent affected food from entering commerce, when necessary. Verification: Ensures preventive controls are consistently implemented and are effective. Recordkeeping: Requires plant manReco agement to keep a written food safety em plan, including the hazard analysis. Managers also would be required to keep records of preventive controls, monitoring, corrective actions and verification. 56 / SPECIAL EDITION / IBIE 2013 posed Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations, Douglas Marshall, PhD, chief scientific officer, microbiology, Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories, Ft. Collins, CO, pointed out a significant change. “Be aware of the difference in FDA language,” he said. “Many ‘should’ verbs in the cGMPs have become ‘shall’ verbs.” Should, he noted, conveys “may,” while shall implies “must.” What’s coming Significantly, the proposed regulations will not apply to ambient-temperature food warehouses, although it covers refrigerated and freezer facilities. The American Bakers Association and the Snack Food Association (SFA) joined with other food industry groups to lobby for this exemption. As for regulations not yet released that carry out other sections of FSMA, Dr. Marshall urged companies to read carefully the appendices to regulations already proposed. It’s here, he noted, that FDA indicates where it may take FSMA regulations in the future, especially concerning microbiological matters. For example, food industry managers are well aware of current rules concerning sanitation of food-con- tact surfaces, but new regulations may address non-contact surfaces such as walls, ceilings and exterior surfaces of equipment, according to Dr. Marshall. “It looks like the regulations will go for ‘required’ — not just ‘recommended’ — language for non-contact surfaces,” he said to attendees at this year’s technical conference of the Biscuit & Cracker Manufacturers’ Association. “FDA is seeking comments on this.” How to pay for FSMA is also up in the air, according to Martin Hahn, partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, and general counsel to SFA, speaking at SNAXPO 2013. The budget submitted by the Obama administration includes user fees for initial inspections and registrations. “Remember, FDA already has the ability to charge fees for violations and re-inspections,” Mr. Hahn said. In the past, the food industry has been able to ward these off through its lobbying efforts. Another interesting aspect to the law is that the written records, which must be supplied to FDA under FSMA, will be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, although with company names redacted, Mr. Hahn said. FBN — with Laurie Gorton Court orders FDA to step up its efforts Delays in writing rules to carry out the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) landed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in court. On June 21, US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the Northern District of California ordered the agency to release all proposed FSMA regulations by Nov. 30, 2013, with comments to close no later than March 31, 2014. Final regulations must be published in the Federal Register by June 30, 2015. Congress wrote a July 2012 deadline into the law to compel FDA to complete rulemaking promptly. That date came and went without results. In August 2012, the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, sued FDA over that failure. New federal regulations are routinely reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget. CFS asked that step be omitted for FSMA rules, but the court disagreed. It also declined to require the quarterly progress reports CFS asked FDA to supply.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IBIE, special edition & show preview -- 2013

IBIE, special edition & show preview -- 2013
Table of Contents
IBIE Perspective - Amid challenges, opportunities persist
State of the Industry - Dizzying changes among baking’s leaders
A changing of the guard
Making Baking History - Progress on Parade
Capital Spending Survey - Making the safe bet
Survey reaches wide sample
IBIE Tech - Going Mobile
ABA Perspectives - Big changes since IBIE 2010
ABA: On the Front Lines
Keep on track with FTRAC
Let's Keep on Truckin'
An Ounce of Prevention
BEMA Initiatives - Collaborative Solutions
Critical Issue: FSMA - Predict & Prevent
Court orders FDA to step up its efforts
Food Safety: ANSI/ASB/Z50.2
Equipment Advances - Clean and Simple
Formulating R&D - Brave New World
Intel about ingredient trends
Critical Issue: Commodity Prices - Long and Winding Road
Ingredients: Creating Simple Labels - Simple Options
Critical Issue: Sodium Reduction - How Low Can You Go?
Ingredients: Ancient Grains - What's Old is New Again
New Product Trends: Baked Foods - Change Afoot
New Product Trends: Snacks - Reinventing Snack Time
Special Section: Bake
The Next Cupcake?
Ingredient Transparency
Food trucks on the move
New Tech Tools
IBIE 2013: A World of Possibilities
Ready to Launch
Pizza Popularity
Revel in Vegas
2013 Exhibitor List
Ad Index

IBIE, special edition & show preview -- 2013