Thursday, August 24, 2017

FDA Releases Food Safety Plan Builder

FDA has provided a Food Safety Plan Builder which is an input driven tool that helps one to document and organize their company's Food Safety Plan.

While some may like having such a tool, I find it more difficult in some ways.  For one, you have to have all of your information ready as you input the data.  It is almost better to have your plan written before inputting for ease.  Second, it is hard to keep an overview of what you have written since with this, you are going step by step.  Lastly, it put the document into a format that is not as easy to change as if you used Word or Excel.

So this is not going to be something I recommend. I find it much easier to use open forms that are easy to add information, modify that information, or visual your plan when working on it.  I also prefer having my documentation in a format that will always be available, and for me, I prefer working in Excel for tables and Word for policies and procedures.

But take a look and let us know what you think.
Download the Food Safety Plan Builder Tool

Food Safety Plan Builder
https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm539791.htm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Food Safety Plan Builder (FSPB) is a tool designed to assist owners/operators of food facilities with the development of food safety plans that are specific to their facilities and meet the requirements of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (21 CFR Part 117).

Use of this tool is strictly optional on the part of the user. FDA is not requiring use of this tool to develop a facility's food safety plan. Although the content of the Food Safety Plan Builder v. 1.0 is consistent with the FDA's existing guidance and regulations, use of the Food Safety Plan Builder by owners and operators of food facilities does not mean that their food safety plan, preventive controls, good manufacturing practices and other food safety procedures are approved by FDA or comply with FDA requirements.

If you have additional questions or need more information, please email
FoodSafetyPlanBuilder@fda.hhs.gov.

The Food Safety Plan Builder guides the user through the following sections:
•Facility Information
•Preliminary Steps
•Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) & Prerequisite Programs
•Hazard Analysis & Preventive Controls Determination
•Process Preventive Controls
•Food Allergen Preventive Controls
•Sanitation Preventive Controls
•Supply-Chain Preventive Controls
•Recall Plan
•Reanalysis of Food Safety Plan
•Food Safety Plan Report
•Signature
•Recordkeeping Procedures
•Important Contacts
•Supporting Documents

No comments:

Post a Comment