Food safety modernization safety act (FSMA) labeling

About FSMA

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rule for Preventive Controls for Human Food requires food and beverage companies to establish and implement a food safety system that includes an analysis of hazards and risk-based preventive controls.

The FSMA is a major step in shifting focus from how food and beverage manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers respond to food contamination to how they prevent food contamination in the first place. How?

• The FSMA shifts more power over food safety controls from companies to the FDA because the FDA will have mandatory recall authority and the ability to keep suspect food from being shipped
• The FSMA requires food and beverage companies to establish or enhance operations, plans, and procedures for preventing food safety issues, including product recalls
• The FSMA requires food and beverage companies to rely more on emerging products and technologies that help keep food safe

Labeling accuracy is one of the food and beverage industry’s biggest allies in recall prevention. TEKLYNX provides food and beverage companies with barcode label software solutions that help increase labeling accuracy, because the software itself significantly reduces the room for human error throughout the labeling process.