FDA Releases Guidance Documents on FSMA Human and Animal Food Safety Rules
The Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 19 released a pair of guidance documents intended to help human and animal food facilities comply with preventive controls regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act, it said. A final guidance document explains…
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current good manufacturing practice requirements for animal food, and includes a self-assessment tool facilities may use to evaluate their compliance. Another guidance document, in draft form, discusses the applicability of “solely engaged exemptions” from the preventive controls rules for human and animal foods, which may apply to holding or transportation of raw agricultural commodities, the storage of raw agricultural commodities (other than fruits and vegetables), the storage of unexposed packaged food, and other activities tied to the preparation of nuts and the ginning of cotton.