Food Safety Tech’s FSMA Supply Chain IQ test series continues with Part II. The test was put together by the subject matter experts at Kestrel Management, LLC. Before taking Part II, let’s review the results from Part I below. (If you have not taken Part I, take the test now!)
- FSMA requires all records for the reevaluation of cGMPs every three years.
- FALSE. Only 28% knew this.
- Implementation records are required for every FSMA requirement.
- TRUE. 74% got this right.
- Under some circumstances, FSMA requires that conformance of a customer’s control of a hazard is required.
- TRUE. 90% answered correctly.
- Under FSMA cGMPs, you must be able to identify at least 95% all possible contaminated product.
- FALSE. Respondents were almost evenly split. 51% answered correctly.
- Monitoring of frequency of preventive controls must be conducted by the operation as part of the food safety plan.
- TRUE. 92% answered on target.
- Written supply chain plans are not included in FSMA food safety plans.
- FALSE. 81% answered correctly.
- Mandatory recalls are provided under FSMA as a new requirement.
- TRUE. 63% answered correctly.
- Verification effectiveness of the implementation of preventive controls needs to be evident but not documented under FSMA.
- FALSE. 74% got this right.
- cGMPs under FSMA require that outer garments be suitable to protect against allergen contamination.
- TRUE. 77% answered correctly.
- You do not need to document records of all product testing under FSMA.
- FALSE. 82% answered correctly.
- FSMA preventive controls does not require hazards be addressed under the HACCP plan.
- FALSE. 69% got this right.
- The food safety plan does not require hazards that are unintentionally introduced within an operation’s processes.
- FALSE. 82% answered correctly.
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We invite you to take Part II below and then learn more about important supply chain issues at our Food Safety Supply Chain Conference, May 29–30. You can attend in person or virtually.
Is there a group writing these questions, or a process for review? It’s just that I have noticed a few things that seem to be a bit off, or at least confusing. For example, Question 11 from Part I, references a HACCP Plan, and while CCPs are listed as a Preventive Control in the rule, the rule does not require a HACCP Plan, it requires a Food Safety Plan. While it may be a matter of semantics, HACCP Plans and Food Safety Plans, are different regulations. Also, I am looking forward to the answer for the question that only personnel of carriers are required to have training.