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Implementing the Final FDA FSMA Rules on the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Foods

The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food, which was passed on April 6, 2016, has now become final. This is the latest in a series of as many as seven rules that have been getting legislated from January 2013 with the intention of creating a modern, risk-based framework that ensures food safety.

This Final Rule has, like its predecessors, been created with the goal of preventing practices that create risks in food safety during transportation. Failure in properly refrigerating food, not ensuring sufficient and thorough cleaning of vehicles between loads, and inability to protect food fully and properly are some of these risks and methods. In its efforts at preventing food contamination during transportation, the FDA seeks to enhance its endeavor of protecting foods “from farm to table”.

Takes off from the 2005 Sanitary Food Transportation Act

The foundation to this Rule can be found in the safeguards the FDA envisioned in the 2005 Sanitary Food Transportation Act (SFTA). Following the FDA’s identification of transportation as a major source of food contamination; it has formulated its seven Rules targeting this particular activity. It seeks to address the concerns of contamination during transportation and has brought about this regulation to ensure that foods are safe during transportation.

Towards facilitating this goal; the Final Rule on sanitary transportation of human and animal food establishes sanitary practices requirements which shippers, loaders, carriers by motor or rail vehicle, and receivers involved in transporting human and animal food have to comply with.

Learn the ways of complying with the Final Rule

How do food transporters ensure that they mitigate the risk associated with their business, and how do they comply with this regulation? The ways of doing this will be the learning a webinar from Compliance4All, a leading provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance, will be offering.

This webinar is part of three training sessions that are required for transporters as part of the Final Rule of April 6, 2016. Trainings for the subsequent two sessions will be carried out later. In this session, which is entitled “Responsibilities of the Carrier Under the Final Rules”, John Ryan will cover the training requirements that all carrier personnel engaged in food transportation operations, except those that are exempt, are required to establish. As part of this requirement, they are further required to earn training certificates for the following:

o  Responsibilities of the carrier under the final Sanitary Transportation rules

o  Awareness of potential food safety problems that may occur during food transportation

o  Basic sanitary transportation practices to address those potential problems.

To understand the ways of implementing the Final Rule, please register for this webinar by visiting Final FDA FSMA Rules

Everyone involved in food transportation activities, such as Drivers, Managers, Compliance personnel, Buyers, Supervisors, Internal food safety team members, Maintenance Personnel, Loaders/Unloaders, Inspectors, Trainers and Food Shippers will find this session very useful.

John will cover the following areas at this webinar:

o  Understand US FDA FSMA Law for the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Foods

o  Understand changes from the proposed FDA FSMA rules

o  Know the different requirements for shippers, carriers and receivers

o  Know who is exempted

Understand the FDA waiver requirements.

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