Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals: FDA’s position on pathogens in raw pet foods

After many years of anticipation, discussion and prognostication, 2016 finds many FDA-regulated animal food facilities facing the reality of the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) preventive controls compliance. The FDA’s final rule Current Good  Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals was published in November, 2015 so the time for speculation is over. The groundwork for achieving compliance should start with a complete understanding what the new requirements actually are for the products produced.