In addition to recapping June, 2019 FSMA news and changes, Peyman Fatemi from TAG dives into Your Environmental Monitoring Program as Part of the Environmental Control Strategy.
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WHAT WE WILL COVER
FSMA Update
Crash Course in Food Defense & IA Rule
Audience Q&A
5. Presenters
Brian Sharp
President
Peyman Fatemi, Ph.D.
20+ years industry experience including senior roles at Unilever
and Smithfield Food, board roles with IAFP; PhD in Food Safety &
Technology, BS in Microbiology.
Dr. Fatemi has provided advice to Unilever, Lipton Tea, Skippy
Peanut Butter, Slim-Fast, Ragu Pasta Sauces, and many other top
brands.
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Brian Sharp
President, SafetyChain
6. FSMA NEWS
Latest FSMA Updates
• Finalized guidance to help facilities determine their
business size under FSMA preventive controls
regulation
• FDA updates FSMA FAQ to include questions and
answers on Produce Safety
• Draft guidance for reducing food safety hazards in
the production of seeds for sprouting
• FDA announces new bodies under the third party
program
• New guidance to help farmers and educators utilize
alternate curricula for produce safety training
8. What Are Environmental Control Strategies?
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• Practices that help reduces risk of contamination within a
process/processing environment
• Sanitary design of facility/equipment
• Adherence to GMPs
• Sanitation
• Hygienic zoning
• Preventive maintenance
• Corrective actions
• Regulatory compliance
• Supply chain
• Process control
9. Role of Environmental Monitoring Program
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• To help answer the following questions:
• Are the ECPs effectively reducing risk?
• What are the influencers?
• What trends are we seeing in our facilities?
• Are corrective actions effective?
• What else should the company do?
10. Connecting the ECP and EMP
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• Leveraging technologies to analyze data
• Align results with events
• Seasonal variations, new equipment, change in sanitation program/employees, new suppliers/supply,
maintenance activities, additional testing during deconstruction
11. What Would the Regulators Do?
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• Inspections are trending more toward ECP/EMP than finished product
testing
• Is there anything not Ready-to-Eat?
• Looking for how the facility is managing their environment as a potential
source of contamination
• Mapping the facilities
• WGS
• Industry should take a similar approach
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TAG Newsletter
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AchesonGroup.com
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