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The key role of equipment and packaging in food safety

As food companies are constantly looking for ways to control food safety risks, they increasingly recognize the need to ensure that their processes are fully validated and verified on an ongoing basis to be doing what they are supposed to do to control risk. They realize that they must control environmental risk and especially allergen risk.

Below are some of the key areas food production and packaging professionals should expect their equipment and packaging manufacturers to focus on in order to help production and packaging facilities maintain leadership in FSMA compliance:

Design equipment that is focused on “built-in FSMA compliance needs.” Considerations include…

• Systems that can be easily validated.
• Systems that provide the key monitoring data that will determine the verification of validated systems as they operate to control risk.
• Systems that allow the electronic capture of data for the ongoing new record-keeping requirements.
• Systems that can be built into product tracking systems.

Ensure that equipment can be readily cleaned to avoid environmental contamination concerns. Considerations include…

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