Prepare Your Company to Meet the Final FSMA Rule Requirements for Environmental Monitoring

Your ability to understand and consider various environmental monitoring technologies and approaches is critical to your company’s ability to manage food safety. The old days of getting away with as little as possible are over. 

The final rules are now law and within one year will be used to support FDA enforcement activities.

The FDA FSMA rules are based on the idea that risk can be reduced through preventive approaches not widely understood or followed in the food industry. Regardless of your ability to understand or validate processes, process validation is now a legal requirement.

Learning Objectives:-

• Understand FDA FSMA requirements for Environmental Monitoring
• Review various technological problems and solutions
• Know what the FDA will look for
• Protect your company, the consumer, and yourself.
• Reduce and eliminate recalls
• Know about biofilms
• Don’t forget traceability

Areas Covered:-

• Adulterants and Hazards
• Risk
• Environmental monitors for different needs
  • Farms and Fields
  • Packing Houses
  • Tables
  • Trucks and Containers
  • Distribution Centers
  • Processors
• Technology
  • ATP
  • PCR (polymerase chain reaction)
  • Batteries
  • Remote Configuration
  • Software
  • Data and the Cloud
• Reporting

Background:-

The wait for the final FSMA Rules is over.  On September 10, 2015, the FDA published the final rules for the Preventive Controls for Human and Animal Foods and has begun to prepare documents focused on environmental monitoring.  Most businesses have less than one year to implement full compliance.

A common misconception is to consider the farm as the prime suspect in need of environmental monitoring.  However, packing houses, trucks and containers, processors, and distribution environments all maintain environments with the potential to adulterate foods due to a lack of hazard controls.

Your ability to understand and consider various environmental monitoring technologies and approaches is critical to your company’s ability to manage food safety.  The old days of getting away with as little as possible are over.

The final rules are now law and within one year will be used to support FDA enforcement activities.

The FDA FSMA rules are based on the idea that risk can be reduced through preventive approaches not widely understood or followed in the food industry.  Regardless of your ability to understand or validate processes, process validation is now a legal requirement.

Why Should You Attend?

Based on FDA recommendations, Food Seminars International (FSI) is presenting three webinars designed to assist companies in their efforts to comply with new FSMA rules: Process Validation, Environmental Monitoring, and HARPC.  Training in these three areas is critical to establishing and maintaining food safety controls and meeting FDA requirements.

Environmental Monitoring is key to providing data critical to hazard analysis risk-based and preventive controls (HARPC) and establishing a foundation for process validation.

Who Will Benefit?

• Food producers, shippers, carriers and processors
• CEOs, VP, and Director Level Personnel
• Food Safety and Quality Team Members
• Food Testing Labs and Quality Personnel
• cGMP Specialists
• Operations personnel
• Food Process Engineers