AFIA Opens Registration for Webinar Series on FSMA

Source: American Feed Industry Association

Bottom Line: Do you need to get your employees up to speed on the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act? Do you know manufacturers, suppliers or customers that could benefit from free FSMA education? The American Feed Industry Association invites you to participate in these webinars and share the information with your colleagues.

The American Feed Industry Association will conduct four webinars in conjunction with Feedstuffs, covering the details of FSMA. Each webinar is two-and-a-half hours long, which allows plenty of time for questions and answers. The first three webinars will build upon each other and the forth webinar focuses on topics related to pet food and pet food ingredients. Webinar speakers include experts from AFIA and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

FSMA was signed into law on Jan. 4, 2011, and provides FDA with sweeping new authorities and requirements. The law was a bipartisan supported bill backed by the food and feed industries. It allows FDA to promulgate new rules for preventive controls, develop performance standards, create new administrative detention rules, provides authority for mandatory recall of adulterated products and provides authority for hiring more than 4,000 new field staff among other provisions.

These webinars are free for the entire industry. Please encourage your customers and suppliers to attend! Registration is now open here.

Webinar No. 1 is Tuesday, Aug. 30, from 2 - 4:30 p.m. ET: The topics covered during this webinar are an overview of FMSA, a history of how this rule came about and who is covered. In addition, key definitions and dates of implementation are in the discussion. An in-depth review of current good manufacturing practices: building the basics and how to develop a recall plan are also on the agenda. This webinar is co-sponsored by Feed Energy and Perdue Agribusiness.

Webinar No. 2 is Tuesday, Sept. 6, from 2 - 4:30 p.m. ET: The topics covered during this webinar are a review of how to complete an animal food safety plan including the development of a hazard analysis, implementation of preventive controls and the role CGMPs can play to mitigate risks. Additional topics include how to develop an effective supply-chain program. This webinar is sponsored by Cargill Animal Nutrition.

Webinar No. 3 is Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 2 - 4:30 p.m. ET: The topics covered during this webinar are records, records and more records! What types of records are required for FSMA compliance and specifically for CGMPs, the animal food safety plan and a company's supply-chain plan. Animal food facilities also need to prepare for three other FSMA rules--Foreign Supplier Verification Program, Third-party Certification and Sanitary Safe Food Transportation Rule. This webinar covers the highlights of these additional rules. This webinar is co-sponsored by Feed Energy, Land O'Lakes and Purina Animal Nutrition.

Webinar No. 4 is Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 2 - 4:30 p.m. ET: This webinar specifically looks at FSMA from the perspective of pet food and pet food ingredient manufacturing and focuses on hazards requiring preventive controls. This webinar is co-sponsored by Perdue Agribusiness and Trouw Nutrition USA.

Thank you to our sponsors

Cargill Animal Nutrition

Perdue AgriBusiness

Feed Energy Company

Trouw Nutrition USA

Land O'Lakes and Purina Animal Nutrition