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Food Safety

Processors must ensure their PCQIs are qualified, trained and experienced

February 14, 2019

Food processors have a mandate to ensure that they have someone with a new title on board: the preventive controls qualified individual, or PCQI.

Food Safety

How Preventive Controls Affect FDA Inspections

Understanding preventive controls is critical to FSMA compliance

Richard F. Stier

November 21, 2018

The enactment of the Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation has profoundly affected the food processing industry in the United States and throughout the world.

Food Safety

The importance of preventive controls

Preventive controls are a must for processors to meet safety goals

Wayne Labs

April 22, 2018

The idea of preventive controls is not process-centric, but risk based. And its principles are not new concepts.

Food Safety

How food processors can build corrective action programs

Processors must have a program to identify deviations and initiate corrective actions or corrections

Richard F. Stier

March 16, 2018

According to FSMA, each processor must have a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI). This person is responsible for developing the food safety program, ensuring the controls are validated, reviewing records and reassessing the plan.

Manufacturing News

FDA guidance documents help processors meet PCAF, PCHF requirements

Guidance helps explain how processors can meet preventive control regulations

December 13, 2017

FDA’s Food Safety Plan Builder software tool helps processors build food safety plans

Regulatory Watch

FDA issues draft chapter for preventive controls guidance

Newest chapter of guidance on hazard analysis released

October 4, 2017

FDA has announced the availability of another draft chapter of “Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food: Guidance for Industry.”

Food Safety

How to know if your plant needs environmental monitoring

As Preventive Controls Regulation is finalized, food makers should be aware of how it affects them.

Richard F. Stier

September 15, 2016

Industry concerns and paranoia over environmental monitoring have been magnified by some of the third-party audit schemes.

5 ways FDAâs new rules will make foods safer

5 ways FDA’s new rules will make foods safer

September 14, 2015

Last week FDA announced it finalized two of seven major rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

FDA gives sneak peek at new Food Defense Plan Builder tool

FDA and FSIS joint report focuses on Listeria risk in retail delis

The study examines interventions that limit the survival, growth or transmission of the disease-causing bacteria.

October 28, 2013

The study examines interventions that limit the survival, growth or transmission of the disease-causing bacteria.

FDA proposes FSMA controls on pet food, agricultural feed

This is the fifth rule the agency has proposed this year as part of FSMA.

Shane O'Halloran

October 25, 2013

This is the fifth rule the agency has proposed this year as part of FSMA.

Cargill Invests in its Cocoa Supply Chain

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