This independent, third-party audit assesses a business against the FSMA requirements to help prepare for a U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspection. The one-day audit takes a preventative and risk-based approach in assessing a company’s facilities and operating procedures. The first half of the audit assesses cGMP requirements that specifically address the manufacturing, processing, packing and holding of animal feed and feed ingredients. The second half of the audit looks at the operation’s food safety plan, which includes a hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for mitigating those hazards.

“FSMA readiness is essential for the feed industry to meet this new regulatory requirement,” says Robert Prevendar, NSF International Managing Director of Global Supply Chain Food Safety. “With more than 70 years of experience in food safety plus expertise in feed safety and FSMA rules, NSF International helps to ensure that companies throughout the supply chain are well prepared to meet the new FSMA animal feed requirements.”