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Food Safety Plan Checklist

For CPG food manufacturers, this checklist helps verify your current food safety plan meets all FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food requirements. Ensure your facility is prepared for audits and maintains product integrity.

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How This Calculator Works

The tool guides you through a series of questions covering key FSMA Preventive Controls elements, including hazard analysis, preventive controls, monitoring, corrective actions, verification, and record-keeping. Your responses are compared against regulatory standards to highlight areas needing attention.

When to Use This Tool

A small bakery expanding distribution to new states.
Reveals if their current HACCP plan meets federal FSMA requirements, identifying specific areas like allergen control or sanitation needing updates.
A frozen meal manufacturer preparing for their annual third-party audit.
Pinpoints weaknesses in their monitoring records or corrective action documentation, allowing targeted improvements before the audit.
A beverage company introducing a new product line with novel ingredients.
Helps ensure the new product's hazard analysis and preventive controls are fully integrated and compliant with FSMA.

Common Questions

How often should I review my food safety plan?
FSMA requires reanalysis of your food safety plan at least every three years, or sooner if there are significant changes to your facility, processes, or products.
What is the difference between HACCP and FSMA Preventive Controls?
HACCP focuses on critical control points, while FSMA Preventive Controls takes a broader approach, requiring controls for all identified hazards that require a preventive control, not just CCPs.
Can this tool help with international food safety standards?
While primarily focused on US FSMA, many principles align with international standards like GFSI schemes. However, specific international requirements may need additional review.
What if my plan has zero identified hazards?
It is highly unlikely for any food facility to have zero hazards. The tool will prompt you to re-evaluate your hazard analysis process to ensure all potential biological, chemical, and physical hazards are considered.

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