The Food Safety Network serves as a framework for food safety education affecting all segments of FPSA membership.

FPSA’s Food Safety Network provides an opportunity for collaboration among food safety experts to share knowledge and discuss challenges facing the food and beverage processing and packing industry. Their general focus areas are Regulatory and Hygienic Design.

RESOURCE LIBRARY

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Webinars:

Food Safety, COVID-19, and Pet Food – Hear from the Food Safety experts about what changed in Pet Food processing plants in light of COVID-19 and how the crisis has redefined the future of food and operator safety for the broader food processing world.

Speakers: Mitch Felderhoff, Owner and President of Sales & Marketing for Muenster Milling, Billie Johnson, Ph.D., Food Safety/Regulatory Compliance Manager for BJ North America, Robert Long, Pet Food Safety Expert
Moderators: Darin Zehr, FPSA Food Safety Chair and General Manager, Commercial Food Sanitation, Nehemiah White, FPSA Food Safety Network Vice-Chair, Market Manager, Deville Technologies.  Replay webinar

Podcast:

Organized by the Food Safety Network, FPSA's first Podcast Channel features discussions with food safety experts who share knowledge on challenges facing the food and beverage processing and packing industry. Topics range from regulatory issues to hygienic design to technological advances.

• Episode 1 │ The Importance of Good Hygienic Design for Food Safety (aired September 20, 2019)
  FPSA's Senior Vice-President of Marketing, Andy Drennan, invites industry experts John Butts (Founder and President of Food Safety by Design and Advisor to the CEO of Land O'Frost) and Joe Stout (President of Commercial Food Sanitation, LLC) to discuss food safety and hygienic design in the food industry in the first of this podcast series.
• Episode 2 │ Regulations, Standards, and Principles (aired October 17, 2019)
  John Butts and Joe Stout discuss the various state and federal regulation agencies, the 10 primary principles of sanitary design, and comparisons between US and European standards.
• Episode 3 │ Seek and Destroy Approach and the Listeria Equation (aired November 21, 2019)
  John Butts and Joe Stout share their concepts of the “seek and destroy” approach when it comes to sanitation practices, the Listeria Equation, why there needs to be an investment in hygienically designed equipment, and more.
• Episode 4 │ Power Principles of Hygienic Design (aired December 19, 2019)
  John Butts and Joe Stout have their final discussion by sharing what causes them distress on a piece of equipment, trends they are seeing in hygienic design, and words of wisdom for aspiring food scientists.

Articles/Other Resources

• USITC Institutes Investigation of 3-A Counterfeits

Equipment Design:

• Sanitary Design made simple for the rest of us (Source: Food Northwest | Media Type – Guideline)
• Lowering risk with component selection (Source: Festo | Media Type – White Paper)
• Compressed air quality (Source: Festo | Media Type – White paper)
• 10 Principles of Sanitary Design for Meat Processing (Source: Meat Institute | Media Type – Checklist)
• CFR 117.40 Equipment Design (Source: FDA | Media Type – Regulation)
• Sanitary Standard for General Requirements (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Guideline)
• Equipment Design checklist for low moisture foods (Source: GMA | Media Type – Guideline)
• Dairy Equipment Design Checklist (Source: CFS | Media Type – Guideline)
• Various Equipment Hygienic Guidelines (Source: EHEDG | Media Type – Guideline)
• Various 3-A Equipment Standards (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Standards)
• Directive 2006/42/EG FOOD MACHINERY (Section 2.1) (Source: EU | Media Type – Regulation)
• 3-A E-learning Module 1.0: Overview of Principles of Hygienic Design (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Online training)
• 3-A E-learning Module 2.0: Hygienic Equipment Design (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Online training)
• FoodSafe Conveyance Workshop (Source: Commercial Food Sanitation | Media Type – On-site workshop)
• Hygienic Design Training (Source: Commercial Food Sanitation | Media Type – In-person training)
• Hygiene Workshop (Source: Commercial Food Sanitation | Media Type – On-site workshop)
• Sanitary Design Workshop (Source: FPSA and others | Media Type – In-person workshop)
• Surface Finish in 3-A Sanitary Standards (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Video Blog – Ask the Expert)
• Hygienic Welding: Quality and Inspection (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Video Blog – Ask the Expert)

Facilities Design:

• 604-05 Compressed Air (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Guideline)
• Sanitary Design: An Introduction to Standards of Design Excellence (Source: Robert Long | Media Type – Presentation)
• Facility Design checklist for Dairy (Source: CFS | Media Type – Guideline)
• Facility Design checklist for Meat Processing (Source: AMI | Media Type – Guideline)
• Facility Design checklist for low moisture foods (Source: GMA | Media Type – Guideline)
• 3-A E-learning Module 3.0: Hygienic Facility Design & Environmental Controls (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Online training)
• CFR 117.20 Plant and Grounds (Source: FDA | Media Type – Regulation)

Sanitation Best Practices:

• Listeria monocytogenes Guidance on Environmental Monitoring and Corrective Actions in At-risk Foods (Source: GMA | Media Type – Guideline)
• CFR 117.35 Sanitary Operations (Source: FDA | Media Type – Regulation)
• FSMA Overview (Source: FDA | Media Type – Summary)
• FSMA Final Rule for Preventative Controls for Human Food (Source: FDA | Media Type – Regulation)
• Food Safety Preventative Controls Alliance (Source: FSPCA | Media Type – Guideline)
• FDA-Track: Statistics for Preventative Controls and cGMP Compliance (Source: FDA | Media Type – Summary)
• CFR 117.36 Sanitary facilities and controls (Source: FDA | Media Type – Regulation)
• 3-A E-learning Module 4.0: Cleaning & Sanitizing (Source: 3-A | Media Type – Online training)
• Advanced Food Industry Leadership Training (Source: Commercial Food Sanitation | Media Type – In-person training)
• Sanitation Essentials Training (Source: Commercial Food Sanitation | Media Type – In-person training)

News and Publications:

• Food Safety Magazine (Source: Food Safety Magazine | Media Type – Publication)
• FDA Reader (Source: FDA Reader | Media Type – News)
• Food Engineering (Source: Food Engineering | Media Type – Publication)
• The National Provisioner – Meat and Poultry Processing News (Source: The National Provisioner | Media Type – Publication)