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Jan24

PECB Agreement with FBFSQMS

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PECB signs a partnership agreement with FB Foodsafety and Quality Management Systems

PECB is honored to announce that it has signed a new partnership agreement with FB Foodsafety and Quality Management Systems, to distribute PECB training courses in Jamaica. This partnership will ensure that the respective companies will give their contribution based on their expertise in offering and organizing PECB ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 courses.

Jul25

FDA Issues Final Food Defense Regulation

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FDA Issues Final Food Defense Regulation

The FDA has finalized a new food safety rule under the landmark, bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that will help to prevent wide-scale public health harm by requiring companies in the United States and abroad to take steps to prevent intentional adulteration of the food supply.

While such acts are unlikely to occur, the new rule advances mitigation strategies to further protect the food supply.

Under the new rule, both domestic and foreign food facilities, for the first time, are required to complete and maintain a written food defense plan that assesses their potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination where the intent is to cause wide-scale public health harm. Facilities now have to identify and implement mitigation strategies to address these vulnerabilities, establish food defense monitoring procedures and corrective actions, verify that the system is working, ensure that personnel assigned to the vulnerable areas receive appropriate training and maintain certain records.

Jul18

Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Updates

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Looking for More Information on the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) Rule?

Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Updates

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated FDA.gov to include updated fact sheets, and new guidance as a resource for importers subject to the FSVP rule, which makes them responsible for verifying that food imported into the United States has been produced in a manner that meets applicable U.S. safety standards.