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Produce shippers have a lot to juggle in order to meet regulatory requirements and buyer standards. They need to document extensive FSMA, GMP, and HACCP practices as well as local, organic, and buyer standards. In order to do this, they need access to up-to-date reporting from their various suppliers.
Last Friday, Cal/OSHA announced new regulations around COVID-19 precautions for workers. Due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, these new rules are more stringent and went into effect immediately. Employers across the state are scrambling to implement the new policies and document their compliance.
Food Safety Consultants are in a unique position to help farming operations across the country build stronger cultures of food safety, one of the core elements of the FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety. By using paperless food safety software to monitor client accounts, they can increase their working capacity and make an even bigger impact.
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:
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.
Paper-based compliance works well for many agriculture operations, but the risk of misplaced, falsified, or destroyed forms remains a liability.
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.
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:
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.
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.