FDA issues Animal Food Hazard Analysis and Preventive Controls Guidance for feed industries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently finalized its Guidance for Industry (GFI) #245: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals.
The guidance is addressed to those industries that manufacture, process, pack or hold food intended for food-producing animals, pets, laboratory animals, and animals detained in zoos and parks.
The document will help animal food facilities in complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)-related rule entitled “Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals”.
With this guidance the FDA aims to provide useful information about how to:
- recognize and evaluate hazards that may occur in the facility,
- conduct analysis,
- develop a food safety plan,
- identify and apply preventive controls,
- recordkeeping requirements associated with the food safety plan.
This guidance finalizes the draft version, dated January 2018, after some significant changes were made in response to stakeholders’ feedback.
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