3M Food Safety has teamed up with The Acheson Group (TAG) for a monthly educational webinar series on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA) to provide food-related businesses clearer understanding of compliance requirements and how they can manage and possibly reduce operational, regulatory and reputational risk.
FSMA is the most extensive reform of food safety laws in the United States in more than 70 years. It was signed into law in 2011, but the first phase of final rules only recently took effect. Those rules, totaling 1,600 pages, include provisions relevant to the entire global food supply chain, from growers and processors to point of sale. They include requirements to maintain food safety plans, perform hazard analysis, institutionalize, monitor and verify the effectiveness of preventive controls for mitigating those hazards, take corrective actions and keep appropriate records.