The Red Seal Your Road to FSMA and Quality Compliance

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1 The Red Seal Your Road to FSMA and Quality Compliance Thomas Vogel Director, Food Safety DFA of California Jeremiah Szabo Director of Operations, DFA of California

2 Our Presenters Today Thomas Vogel Auditor, Trainer, Consultant DFA of California Driving force behind our food safety operations in the areas of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and supplier assurance programs, including HACCP, SQF and BRC 35 years of experience in the food industry, while working for national and international companies in quality assurance, product development and auditing. BSC in Chemistry and an accomplished food safety trainer for numerous food safety manager certification courses In addition, he is a GMP/HACCP instructor, a Lead Auditor trainer, and is also certified to audit on the Global Food Safety Initiative for SQF and BRC. He is certified in numerous product categories

3 Our Presenters Today Jeremiah Szabo Operations Director for commodity inspection and laboratory programs, Auditor, Trainer, Consultant DFA of California 10 years of food industry experience working in Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Laboratory management, and food safety. BSC in Biological sciences, certified HACCP auditor, certified to audit to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) audits for BRC and SQF audits, GMP/HACCP/Internal Auditor trainer,

4 Purpose Of This Session Overview of Food Safety Modernization Act Provide an update on the implementation of FSMA How the Red Seal can assist with FSMA compliance How the Red Seal can give a market advantage Q&A

5 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Congress passed FSMA on December 20th 2010 President Obama signed it into law on January 4th, 2011 Congress sets the laws, FDA develops the regulations to fit with the laws and then enforces the laws. Initial timetable had a 3 year implementation plan with parts being implemented immediately and other parts gradually but FDA has not been able to meet this timeframe and it is now likely to be a 5-7 year plan.

6 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Federal Judge from the US District Court in Northern California has ruled that FDA has to meet the following timetable. Regulations all had to be published by November 30th, All comment periods have to be closed out by March 31st, Final regulations need to be put into effect by June 30th, Followed by a 3 year implementation plan for Industry.

7 Food Safety Modernization Act 2010 Title 1 Designed to improve capacity to prevent food safety problems Title 2 Designed to improve capacity to detect and respond to food safety problems Title 3 Designed to improve the safety of imported food Title 4 Includes miscellaneous provisions

8 Food Safety Modernization Act 2010 Exempted Businesses FSMA does not apply to facilities regulated by USDA (meat, poultry and eggs) Also exempted are the following industries from any changes: Juice manufacturers Seafood processors Alcohol-related facilities Low acid canning (except to expand their Hazard Analysis) Small Businesses < $500,000 sales and 50% of their sales within 275 miles of their facility (Tester amendment) FDA is considering modified requirements for warehouses and having Preventive Controls only if they are storing refrigerated products.

9 Title 1 Sections Designed to prevent food safety problems Section 101 FDA access to your records Section 102 Registration and possible suspension by FDA Section 103 Preventive Controls (HACCP) Section 104 FDA hazard information Section 105 Produce food safety guidelines Section 106 Regulations to prevent intentional adulteration Section 107 Fee assessments by FDA Section 108 National agriculture and food defense strategy

10 Title 1 Sections Continued Section 109 Annual reporting by Secretary of Homeland Security Section 110 Building domestic capacity Section 111 Sanitary transportation regulations Section 112 Allergen education Section 113 New dietary ingredients

11 Sections Update We are for the purpose of this update confining our updates to the following Sections of FSMA: Section 103 Preventive Controls Rule proposal. Section 105 Produce Guidelines. Section 106 Intentional Adulteration of Foods. Section 301 Voluntary Importer Program. Section 306 Risk Assessment on Imported Foods. Section 307 Third Party Accredited Audits.

12 Section 103 cgmp and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human food. Requires registered facilities unless exempt, to: Have a written food safety plan Perform a Hazard analysis Implement risk based preventive control measures Conduct Monitoring Perform Corrective Actions Verify the effectiveness of these preventive controls Maintain records (FDA to provide list of what records will be required).

13 Section 103 cgmp and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human food. Requires all FDA registered facilities to comply with the exception of Dietary Supplement manufacturers Seafood companies. Juice manufacturers. Alcohol manufacturers. Low acid canning. Proposing to possibly exempt grinding, milling, or crushing of grains. In-farm packing of intact fruit and vegetables. Facilities storing unexposed products.

14 PREVENTIVE CONTROLS "Preventive Controls" vs. HACCP CCPs vs. CPs. Knowing your risks Managing your Risks Training

15 PREVENTIVE CONTROLS vs. HACCP FDA makes a point in this proposed rule that although Preventive Controls should be determined using Principle 1 (Hazard Analysis) as in developing a HACCP program the Preventive Controls should not be limited to just CCPs. Need to include Pre-requisite programs Recall program Sanitation programs Environmental Pathogens and controls Allergens and controls Equipment Calibration Food Defense Program see Section 106.

16 PREVENTIVE CONTROLS vs. HACCP FDA's support information for requiring companies to develop and implement Preventive Controls programs vs. HACCP plans states that companies with HACCP plans have not put the due diligence into implementing and monitoring their CPs. Thoughts are here that industry has deferred to a CP instead of a CCP so as to avoid having to monitor, record and react to possible variances required of a CCP in a HACCP Plan and this has thus continued to cause contaminated products to be distributed and hence cause subsequent Recalls. Industry has also deferred to their Suppliers control of certain possible hazards to the extent that they trust their Suppliers but never verify their Suppliers can and do achieve this level of control of an "likely to occur" hazard.

17 Section 103 cgmp and Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human food. This proposed rule requires also: That low acid canning facilities expand their hazard analysis to include chemical and physical hazards Requires that each hazard analysis to include the possibility of deliberate or "terroristic" contamination of your products. (However preventive controls for this are to be covered under your Food Defense plan (See Section 106) not this plan). Requires all companies to reanalyze their potential hazards every three years

18 Section 103 cgmp and Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human food. FSMA asks companies to assess chemical, radiological hazards, natural toxins, pesticides, drug residues in their hazard analysis, ( arsenic in chicken, aflatoxins in figs, or acrylamide in corn chips). (FDA recently lowered the allowable arsenic level in apple juice to match that allowed in drinking water).

19 cgmp Working Group presented to the FDA 7 areas of opportunity for updating the cgmps. Training Documented Allergen controls Documented environmental pathogen control program Documented SSOPs Maintenance of food safety records Possibly removing the exemption given to companies who just handle raw agricultural products Getting public comment for time and temperature as related to the safe storage of hot and cold foods

20 Red Seal Certification Program

21 Certification Program Requirements Red Seal Cer*ficate Available to DFA of California and Specialty Crop Trade Council members only! DFA Red Seal Member companies must meet Facility Requirements Quality Requirements

22 No other Product Certification in the industry gives the customer. ü Facility Food Safety Cer6fica6on ü Customer specific Product Quality Cer6fica6on ü Customer specific Product Laboratory Cer6fica6on

23 Red Seal Certified Commodities Tree Nuts Dried Fruit

24 Food Safety Cer*fica*on Red Seal Member facili;es must. Demonstrate that their products are handled, produced, packaged and stored at a facility opera;ng according to ü Codex Alimentarius (HACCP) and the Na6onal Advisory Commi9ee on Microbiological Criteria of Foods (NACMCF) guidelines ü Cer;fied to a Global Food Safety Ini;a;ve (GFSI) standard Verified by an authorized DFA food safety auditor

25 Food Safety Cer*fica*on DFA Red Seal Members

26 Food Safety Cer*fica*on

27 Product Quality Certification Customer Sa*sfac*on is #1! Quality provisions for Red Seal Cer;fied products: ü Lot averaging not allowed! ü Posi;ve lot iden;fica;on ü Inspec;on within 30 days of shipment ü No arbitra;on on quality ü No Rejected segments ü Grading to meet customer specifica;ons ü Crop year cer;fied ü Cer*fy Contract Requirements (i.e. Laboratory tes*ng)

28 Comparison between FSMA and The Red Seal requirements WriKen Food Safety Plan ü Both FDA and DFA require that the facility has a wriken food safety plan. ü Both FDA and DFA require that staff be trained and an experienced individual is responsible for developing the program Prerequisite programs: ü DFA emphasizes the importance of prerequisite programs. While FDA does not specifically address PRP s, in this way DFA is stronger. Allergen Management ü Stronger than what FSMA requires Food Defense ü FDA did not include anything with regard to Food Defense but DFA requires it.

29 Comparison between FSMA and The Red Seal requirements Valida*on ü Both FDA and DFA require valida*on of the HACCP plan. Correc*ve Ac*on ü DFA is stronger than FSMA Traceability ü Both FDA and DFA require a traceability program Recall Program ü Both FDA and DFA require a recall program. Internal Audits ü FDA does not require internal audits, DFA is stronger. Supplier Verifica*on ü Stronger DFA emphasis than FDA

30 Product Quality Certification ü Safer Products ü Consistent Uniformity ü Superior Quality Ship Red Seal Cer*fied! agfoodsafety.org/quality- inspec*on/red- seal- cer*ficate

31 Auditing, Certification, Training & Improvement Solutions BRC Food Safety SQF HACCP Training In House Public Courses Consultation

32 Food Safety Services Training Public and onsite training (SQF, BRC, HACCP, Advanced HACCP, Internal Auditor, Food Defense, GMP) Consulting On-site GAP analysis HACCP program facilitation Program review & development Allergen program review and validation Product specification building Audits Non-Accredited: GMP, Warehouse, HACCP Verification Accredited: GFSI benchmarked certification audits (DFA Global Certifications, LLC)

33 THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING v Q&A