Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the availability of
guidance documents designed to help food manufacturers minimize the risk
of tampering or other malicious, criminal or terrorist actions. Two of
the guidances are revised, final documents, and one is a proposed
guidance.
-Food Producers, Processors, and Transporters: Food Security Preventive
Measures Guidance (Final) http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/secguid6.html
-Importers and Filers: Food Security Preventive Measures Guidance (Final)
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/secguid7.html
These two final guidances will help operators of food establishments
(e.g., firms that produce, process, store, repack, re-label, distribute,
or transport food or food ingredients) and operators of food importing
establishments, storage warehouses, and customs brokers identify
preventive measures to improve the security of their operations.
-Retail Food Stores and Food Service Establishments: Food Security
Preventive Measures Guidance (Proposed)
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/secguid5.html
This proposed guidance covers food stores and food service establishments.
They also identify preventive measures that operators can take to minimize
the security risks to their products.
FDA's guidance documents are NOT regulations and are NOT mandatory. They
set forh voluntary recommendations from FDA. FDA has found that
developing guidance is the fastest way to circulate these recommendations
to the industry, while allowing flexibility to alter recommendations as
science and intelligence information changes.
A fact sheet is on the web at:
http://www.fda.gov/oc/factsheets/foodsecurity.html
Pamela Tom
University of California
Sea Grant Extension Program
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