The results are in! A couple of weeks ago, we asked readers to take a survey to test their knowledge of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, and most passed with flying colors. If you didn’t take the test yet, you can view it here. The following are the results:

1. You are only required for your foreign suppliers to meet your company requirements. FALSE
   • 89% answered correctly
2. All required records for each applicable foreign-supplied product must be maintained for each shipment. TRUE
   • 93% answered correctly
3. Your FSVP does not require that information for each lot of each product under the program be provided. FALSE
   • 84% answered correctly
4. Just the location of the manufacturer of the product is required for the entity. FALSE
   • 90% answered correctly
5. Foreign supplied shipments should include records to comprise the listing of all required information. TRUE
   • 91% answered correctly
6. A qualified foreign supplier must have a Qualified Individual over the manufacturing of food product that is shipped to the United States. TRUE
   • 83% answered correctly
7. A foreign supplier does not need to be registered under FDA requirements if the shipment of product is going to a registered facility in the United States. FALSE
   • 78% answered correctly
8. A foreign supplier of food to the United States must ensure that all the requirements of a FSMA Food Safety Plan under cGMP117.126 be met for the manufacture of the food being exported to the United States. TRUE
   • 94% answered correctly
9. The product information, including COA compliance, is not required for each lot of a product on a foreign-supplied shipment. FALSE
   • 83% answered correctly
10. A food broker of foreign-supplied product to the United States does not have any responsibility of meeting the FSMA requirements. FALSE
    • 92% answered correctly