By: Sarah Malenich, Senior Manager for Sales & Marketing, Safe Quality Food Institute
We at the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) know our stakeholders have questions about how SQF Certification will prepare them to be compliant with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Now we’ve answered those questions.
SQFI contracted The Acheson Group (TAG) to compare the elements of SQF Level 2 Certification (specifically Modules 2 and 11) to the Food and Drug Administration’s FSMA Preventative Controls for Human and Animal Food Final Rule requirements. The analysis examined the two major aspects of the Final Rule: the new preventive controls requirements that industry must comply with in order to implement the requirements of Section 103 of FSM; and the updated current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) (current 21 C.F.R. Part 110 now re-designated as Part 117).
As the food industry looks to protect consumers, customers, and their brand as well as successfully be in compliant with the final FSMA rules, TAG’s analysis indicates that being SQF Level 2 certified is a very robust, strong advantage to fulfilling FSMA requirements.
We’ve done our homework…and we got an A! Learn more at www.sqfi.com.
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