Just a few months ago, we entered into the enforcement period for the FSMA Preventative Controls rule, which largely came and went without incident. The passage was a bit anticlimactic; no reports came out of rolling food plant closures nor any images of executives being hauled off to jail. That’s not to say that was expected, especially since a whole industry has sprouted around providing companies FSMA-ready services to avoid these outcomes.
Also, in talking with the big food companies, the majority have already been doing much of what FSMA instructs for a long while. So, it was the smaller to mid-sized companies that felt most of the pressure and had to do some catching up.