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FDA Releases Third Installment of the Draft Guidance for the Intentional Adulteration Rule

GOCA — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:20:02 +0000

The final rule of the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is intended to prevent the intentional tampering with acts intended to cause large-scale public health harm, including acts of terrorism directed at the food supply. Such acts, while unlikely to occur, could cause illness, death, or economic disruption of the food supply in the absence of mitigation strategies.

In developing the rule, FDA interacted with the intelligence department and considered vulnerability assessments conducted in collaboration with the food industry. While acts of intentional adulteration can take many other forms, including acts by disgruntled employees or economically motivated adulteration, the goal of this rule is to prevent acts intended to cause large-scale harm. Economic adulteration is addressed in the final rules of preventive controls for food and feed.

All facilities must ensure that personnel assigned to vulnerable areas receive appropriate training; facilities must maintain records of food defense monitoring, corrective actions, and verification activities. Each covered facility is required to prepare and implement a food defense plan. This plan must be in writing and identify vulnerabilities and process steps, mitigation strategies and procedures for food safety monitoring, corrective actions and verification. Compliance requirements for large facilities began in July 2019, and inspections will begin in March 2020.

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End of the training cycle organized by Extenda

GOCA — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 09:49:21 +0000

The PCQI training given on 19, 20 and 21 February in Almeria ended to the 2018 training cycle organized by Extenda I have given by Goca Consulting The course of Preventive controls for human food has been imparted by our Technical Director José Luis Gómez Carrasco. A group of 20 participants made possible the development of a dynamic and enriching theoretical-practical training.

GOCA Consulting successfully completed Extenda’s food safety training at its facilities in Almeria. and Seville. This training cycle is encompassed in terms of security food processing, control of importers, fresh products, etc. and sea products.

All the courses given by GOCA Consulting allow you to obtain certificates of professionalism. recognized by the FDA.

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Workshop on FDA labelling requirements

Goca — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:29:16 +0000

A total of 24 agri-food companies learned about FDA’s new labelling requirements during the course of a technical workshop organized by the Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento, through its agency Extenda-Agencia Andaluza de Promoción Exterior, in Sevilla.

The session was led by Itzíar Gómez Carrasco, from GOCA Consulting Services, consultant in International Development with experience working as researcher and certificates in HACCP (Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points), GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices), GAPs (Good Agricultural Practices) and Preventive Controls for Human Food-PCQI (FSMA) by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA).

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