Are You Operating A High-Risk Facility? You Better Be Sure (FSMA Update)
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March 28, 2012
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Tags: database, facilities, FDA, food safety modernization act, FSMA, HARPC, high-risk, inspections, Non High Risk, risk, safety, SAS, software, VQ?IP
In a recently updated Q/A section on the FDA’s FSMA web page, FDA attempts to clarify the impact of FSMA upon “High-Risk” food facilities. Essentially, FDA plans to utilize a database to identify the world’s High Risk Facilities and inspect them all every 3 years. Also FDA plans to inspect the world’s Non High-Risk facilities every 5 years. According to FDA, there are currently 22,325 domestic facilities classified as HR. That designation was arrived at by application of the following criteria:
