In July, the FDA released their Blueprint for the “New Era of Smarter Food Safety”, building on existing FSMA requirements. The FDA Blueprint identifies four main elements, which they consider to be foundational to the New Era of Smarter Food Safety:
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Food Safety Everyday: Building a Strong Food Safety Culture
Topics: Food Safety FSMA Food Safety Compliance
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4 Ways to Strengthen Your Payroll Documentation Compliance
Strengthening your payroll compliance is a valuable way to minimize risk to your operation and avoid costly penalties. New regulations and requirements are imposed on farm employers every year so keeping track of them is a time-consuming process. Here are some best practices to help stay aligned with labor laws and minimize expensive risks to your business.
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The Benefits of Ditching Paper-Based Compliance in Agriculture
Paper-based compliance works well for many agriculture operations, but the risk of misplaced, falsified, or destroyed forms remains a liability.
Topics: Food Safety
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Produce Industry on Growers Going Digital in the New Era of Food Safety [Webinar Recap]
The FDA’s guidance on the New Era of Smarter Food Safety has brought the unique challenges of digital transformation to the grower community. We’re recapping some insights from United Fresh’s recent webinar, where produce professionals shared their perspectives on the FDA’s new blueprint for the New Era of Smarter Food Safety.
Topics: Food Safety
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Food Safety Audits in a Digital World: 4 Things You Must Know
It’s no secret that most food safety managers dread audit time. Audit prep can be tedious and frustrating. The good news is, you can change your outlook on audits by knowing these four things:
Topics: Food Safety FSMA Food Safety Compliance
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Retailers Concerned: Food Safety Standards in the Field (From GOPEX)
For those at the Global Organic Produce Expo (GOPEX) in Miami last week, there was a lot of talk of how farming organizations and large food buyers are working to assure that new food safety standards for produce are being met in the field.
Topics: Food Safety Food Safety Compliance Supply Chain Compliance GOPEX
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Top Priorities for FSMA in 2020
Things might have slowed down over the holidays for some of us, but they certainly didn’t on the food safety and food safety regulatory front.