Fact Sheet

FSMA Supply Chain Program Requirements for Processors and Their Produce Suppliers

September 2020 | Extension Legal Services Initiative

Authors

Sophia Kruszewski, Elizabeth Newbold,

This fact sheet clarifies a processor’s responsibilities under the Food Safety and Modernization Act Preventive Controls for Human Foods (FSMA PCHF) when working with exempt and qualified exempt eligible farms and qualified mixed-type facilities and outlines what documentation the processor needs to obtain from these suppliers to be compliant.

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This factsheet explains which processing facilities must comply with the FSMA PCHF supply chain requirements. For those facilities that must have a supply chain program in place, the factsheet describes the steps they must take to approve produce farms as suppliers, including the alternative options available to processors sourcing from exempt and qualified exempt farms and from qualified farm mixed-type facilities.

Suggested Citation

FMSA Supply Chain Program Requirements for Processors and Their Produce Suppliers, NECAFS & Vt. L. Sch. Ctr. for Agric. & Food Sys. (2020), https://elsi.necafs.org/sites/default/files/uploads/fsma_supply_chain_requirements_farms_mixed-type_facilities_factsheet.pdf. 

Sophia Kruszewski

Former Director, Food and Agriculture Clinic, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems

Sophia Kruszewski JD’13 is the Deputy Policy Director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and was formerly an assistant professor at Vermont Law School, where she directed the Food and Agriculture Clinic at the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems.

Elizabeth Newbold

Assistant Director, University of Vermont Extension, Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety

Elizabeth Newbold is the Assistant Director for the Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety (NECAFS), one of four USDA funded regional centers tasked with coordinating training, education and outreach related to the FSMA Produce Safety Rule and the FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Foods Rule. Her work focuses on coordination and facilitation of the Northeast regional network to support a national food safety training, education, extension, outreach, and technical assistance system among small and medium-sized producers and small processors.

FSMA Supply Chain Program Requirements for Processors and Their Produce Suppliers

Suggested Citation

Sophia Kruszewski

Elizabeth Newbold

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