Adjusting your Compliance Program to Meet new FDA Requirements

Why Should You Attend:

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) grants sweeping new powers to the FDA that must be addressed in your company’s compliance program. This act provides the most dramatic changes to food safety regulations affecting food producers and manufacturer in over 70 years. FDA now had a legislative mandate to require comprehensive, science-based preventive controls across the food supply.

This webinar will provide the basic building blocks you will need to adjust your company’s governance, risk management and compliance program related to new FDA requirements. With new rule making eminent, you should know how your company can build a program that is resilient and agile in this fast paced environment. We will discuss a framework companies can use to stay resilient and agile, how they can improve their documentation and ensure they are “audit ready” for third party certifiers, or government regulators.

All functional groups who have food safety and compliance responsibility or need to understand the basics of food safety and must be informed about its compliance should attend.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Overview of the Food Safety and Modernization Act.
• A Framework to Address Compliance.
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP).
• The Farm-to-Table Chain.
• Accredited Third Party Certification.
• Documentation and Audit Readiness.
• Monitoring Changes to the Business Context.

Who Will Benefit:

• Internal Auditors
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Operations Managers
• Compliance Professionals
• Risk Management
• Attorneys and Legal Staff

Instructor Profile:

Jason Mefford, is a sought after adviser and speaker on ethics, corporate governance, GRC, and internal audit topics. He is currently the President of Mefford Associates, a professional training, coaching and boutique advisory firm.

Mefford has been the chief audit executive at two different multi-billion dollar manufacturing companies. Prior to that he was a manager at two different large public accounting firms, performing internal and external audits and advisory services for clients in various industries.

Mefford is active in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) where he has served in various volunteer leadership positions at the local and international level. He is also a Fellow with the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) a non-profit think tank that uniquely helps organizations drive Principled Performance® by enhancing corporate culture and integrating governance, risk management, and compliance processes.

Topic Background:

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) grants sweeping new powers to the FDA that must be addressed in your company’s compliance program. FDA now had a legislative mandate to require comprehensive, science-based preventive controls across the food supply. The FSMA mandates that all processing facilities implement preventive controls that are appropriate for their operations. FDA has previously required HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) for seafood and juice processors, as has USDA for meat and poultry, but FSMA makes HACCP-type preventive controls the norm in all food processing facilities. This new law is historic, because for the first time more than 70 years, a significant overhaul of the statutory tool kit for combating food-borne illness. Companies must understand how these changes affect the way they need to address compliance requirements around food safety.

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