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FEED QUARTERLY: FEED INDUSTRY PREPARES FOR FSMA

creating a 20-minute video, which
will be available in August, which can
be shown to employees to meet that
requirement.

lieves that for the most part feed mills
will be able to control hazards with
CGMPs, thereby avoiding the costly
preventive controls, Sellers said.
"If you can mitigate the risk from
FOOD SAFETY PLAN
your hazard by a prerequisite program
Feed facilities will be required to or CGMP, then you don't have to have
have a written food safety plan that a preventive control," Sellers said.
includes several components: haz- "Unless you have a microbial probard analysis; standard operating pro- lem, and that applies to those in pet
cedures to mitigate risk; preventive food. FDA said that's the way they can
controls, if necessary; supply-chain enforce it."
program; recall plan; procedures for
FDA didn't provide much guidance
monitoring; corrective action proce- on hazard analysis, Sellers said, so
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procedures.
Grain and Feed Association (NGFA)
AFIA has created a sample food safe- WR¿QDQFHDKD]DUGDQDO\VLVRIW\SLFDO
ty plan that companies can use as a ref- ingredients and processes associated
erence to write their own plan. Sellers with the manufacturing and distribusaid it's important they don't just copy tion of animal feed and pet food.
the AFIA, because companies are leResearchers at the University of
gally bound to create their own.
Minnesota College of Veterinary
Hazard analysis is a major part of the Medicine's Center for Animal Health
ZULWWHQIRRGVDIHW\SODQDQGLQWKH¿UVW and Food Safety (CAHFS) is completstep is determining if there are known ing the analysis, expected to be comor reasonably foreseeable biological, plete in October, at an estimated cost
chemical and physical hazards.
of $170,000.
Next, it must determine the severCAHFS will develop a generic hazity to animals or humans if the hazard ard analysis, which will be shared
were to occur, and thirdly, the prob- with AFIA- and NGFA-member faability that the hazard will occur in cilities. While facilities can't adopt
the absence of preventive controls. the analysis wholesale, Sellers said, it
Prerequisite programs and CGMPs can be adapted to a companies' specan be considered during this determi- FL¿FRSHUDWLRQVVDYLQJWKHPPLOOLRQV
nation as they likely reduce the prob- of dollars if they had to complete the
ability in some cases.
analysis from scratch.
In the fourth step, determine if the
The hazard analysis must be reknown or reasonably foreseeable haz- viewed every three years, or earlier,
ard is a hazard requiring a preventive if there are changes to equipment,
control based on steps 2 and 3. From manufacturing process or other operathere, determine the appropriate con- tions that make a review warranted. A
trol for the hazard (process control, SUHYHQWLYHFRQWUROTXDOL¿HGLQGLYLGXDO
sanitation control, supply-chain-ap- (PCQI) will have to review the analyplied control, or other control). The sis and sign off on it, Sellers said.
step is justifying the determination,
Facilities will need a PCQI, which
particularly if it is not a hazard requir- is someone knowledgeable about feed
ing a preventive control.
safety and hygiene by job experience or
Preventive controls are very in- has completed training under standarddepth, costly and complicated, Jones ized curriculum. The FDA and Food
said, which is why compliance with Safety Preventive Control Alliance crethat portion of the law has an addition- ated a framework for training, and seval year, going into effect on Sept. 18, eral groups are now offering it.
2017, for large companies. AFIA beIowa State University offered PCQI
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Upcoming FSMA-training
and education
AFIA Webinar Series. Register by e-mail at
register@afia.org or call 1.703.558.3573.
Aug. 30: Topics to be covered include:
overview of FMSA; a history of the rule;
who is covered; key definitions; dates of
implementation; and in-depth review of
current good manufacturing practices:
building the basics and how to develop
a recall plan.
Sept. 6: Topics to be covered include:
how to complete an animal food safety
plan including the development of a hazard analysis, implementation of preventive controls and the role CGMPs; and
how to develop an effective supply-chain
program.
Sept. 20: Topics to be covered include:
what types of records are required for
FSMA compliance and specifically for
CGMPs, the animal food safety plan and
a company's supply-chain plan; Foreign
Supplier Verification Program; Third-Party
Certification; and Sanitary Safe Food
Transportation Rule.
Sept. 27: This webinar specifically
looks at FSMA from the perspective of
pet food and pet food ingredient manufacturing and focuses on hazards requiring preventive controls.
NGFA-KSU Food Safety Modernization
Act Feed Industry Training, Sept. 20-22,
IGP Conference Center in Manhattan,
Kansas, U.S. For more information and to
register visit www.grains.k-state.edu/igp/
FSMA.html.

training in June and AFIA hosted two
training sessions in July and August
in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., and
Auburn, Alabama, U.S. NGFA and
KSU are offering training Sept. 2022 at the IGP Conference Center in
Manhattan, Kansas, U.S. Individuals
who complete the training will reFHLYH D 3&4, FHUWL¿FDWH DORQJ ZLWK D
+$&&3FHUWL¿FDWH.
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