The ability to have adequate risk management tools from farm to fork is not only a regulatory compliance requirement but also a consumer expectation. Supply chain control programs provide an effective tool to guarantee food safety at the front end of the process. They are designed to allow for the identification and adequate control of risks from the supplier itself as well as those inherent to the ingredients and materials being sourced. Given the current challenges in supply chain sourcing, this session will focus on how the design of strong supply chain control programs, protects the consumers and your brands. We will share the various tools that can be used to develop, maintain and continue to grow these programs, such as the control of physical, chemical, biological hazards, food fraud protection, procurement practices, GFSI certifications and validations, GMP practices, environmental control plans, staffing and training, and the maturity of the food safety culture.

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Supply Chain Controls:
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and Consumer Safety
Liliana Casal-Wardle
Executive Senior Director, Food Safety & Supply Chain Risk Management
The Acheson Group - TAG

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4. Featured FSMA Friday Speaker & Host
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Jim Albright
Liliana Casal-Wardle
Executive Sr. Director, Food Safety & Supply Chain Risk
● 25 years of experience in the private industry.
● Held technical and global leadership roles managing food safety
and product quality at The Hershey Company from 2002 to 2019.
● Specific areas of expertise include Food Safety, Food Safety
Culture, Food Science, Food Defense, Cleaning & Sanitation
practices, Environmental Microbiological Monitoring Programs,
GFSI requirements and Quality Assurance, amongst others.
● Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires.
● Certified SQF Practitioner and a FSMA Preventive Controls
Qualified Individual (PCQI).

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UPDATED GUIDANCE FOR FOREIGN SUPPLIER VERIFICATION PROGRAM
FSMA Updates
The most important modifications :
The symbol “UKN” for importers no longer acceptable after July 24, 2022. Importers MUST have a
valid DUNS number or submitter will be rejected by the CBP’s electronic entry system.
You can register your facility at http://dnb.com/duns-number.html
Released April, 27, 2022

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CGMPs: education and training are required
Management must ensure that food handlers are
qualified
● Quality Control Systems
● Employee Health and employee practices
Plant and Grounds
● Sanitary Operations: Cleaning and sanitation
and Environmental Microbiological
Monitoring Program
● Sanitary Facilities and Controls
● Sanitary design of Equipment and Utensils
● Processes and Controls
● Raw Materials
● Manufacturing Operations
● Warehousing and Distribution
● Defect Action Levels (DALs)
The Food Safety Plan
Hazard
Analysis
Process
Controls
Allergen
Controls
Sanitation
Controls
Supply
Chain
Controls
Recall
Plan
FSMA: Preventive approach to control food safety risks
Applies to a specific product or family of similar ones Apply to all products manufactured at the site

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Supply chain control program:
• When an identified hazard requires a preventive control that will be
managed at the supplier level.
• Raw materials and other ingredients that require a Supply Chain
control must be sourced from approved suppliers.
• If there is a need for emergency sourcing from unapproved suppliers'
verification activities must be put in place.
• Facilities do not need to have a supply-chain program if they control
the hazard in their own facility, or if a subsequent entity (such as
another processor) will control the hazard, and the facility follows
applicable requirements.
• Brokers or Distributors can conduct supplier verification activities, but
these should be reviewed and assessed by the receiver.
FSMA: When is a Supply Chain Control Program required?
If a facility controls a hazard by their own, they DO NOT require a
supplier control program.

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● Hazard analysis and Food Safety Plan
● Implemented GMP program
● Environmental Monitoring Program
● Cleaning and Sanitation programs
● Validations for critical processes that
control the risk
● Specifications and copies of CoAs
● Their own Supplier Control Program for
their suppliers
● History of recalls and management of
incidents: CAPAs
● Management of consumer complaints
● GFSI audits or other certifications
● Copies of regulatory audits
● Copies of their recall program
● Allergen Management program
● Copies of labels of their products
● Capabilities for product traceability
● Recall plan
● Inspection and sampling programs for
receiving and shipping
● Management of internal audits
Supplier Approval Program:
Understanding their risk management programs and practices

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How do you monitor your suppliers’ performance?
Focus on Performance and CHANGE:
● Review performance by developing integrated scorecards together with the cross
functional teams
● Review compliance to the programs, GFSI trends, and completed corrective actions
Review trends of performance for leading and lagging indicators:
● EMMP
● Preventive Controls Compliance
● Master Sanitation Schedule Compliance
● Management of incidents and near misses
Work with your suppliers to implement Continuous Improvement Programs:
● Food Safety capital investment programs
● Incentives and recognition programs for the workforce
● Education and training
● Empowerment of the workforce through the understanding of the programs to
manage food safety risks and their roles and responsibilities

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The Toolbox: Digital Tools
There are multiple benefits for companies that leverage them
Agile communication of real-time data
Easily accessible capabilities for trending of results
Trends can easily become visual aids used for education, training and recognition
The use of digital tools has grown in the industry

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Success relies on
Ongoing Bilateral compliance
Enhanced communication
REWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Shared tools for continuous
improvement
Ready to support each other
Your Procurement team leads the development of a network of PREFERRED SUPPLIERS
Long term contracts are in place and honored by the two parts
Scorecard of supplier performance: positive trends of
compliance with food safety and quality standards, verified on
time deliveries, consistency on long term costs , NO Surprises
Strategies that work for effectiveness of supply chain controls
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Every step of the Supply Chain Supply Chain impacts consumers
Food is both a necessity
and indulgence
On every step of the supply
chain there are risks that to
manage to guarantee the
health and safety of the
consumers.

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Food safety awareness: The eyes of the consumers
Consumers recognize the efforts to
guarantee safe food and retailers share
their strong commitment to food safety
Engagement and loyalty of suppliers is
strengthened by consumers recognition
towards a reliable brand
The expectations of consumers are
independent of their geographical
location

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• FSMA has established the criteria for the management
of supply chain hazards of high severity and probability.
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and Consumer Safety
• Preventive controls managed at the supplier level are
Supply Chain Controls and they must effectively control
and mitigate the biological, physical and chemical risks.
• They must be designed to assess the risk of food fraud
and mitigate it when it impacts food safety.
• The ongoing effectiveness of the Supply Chain controls
relies on the strength of the supplier approval programs
management of emergency sourcing and ongoing
monitoring of performance of existing suppliers .

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