Features and Benefits
fsma food safety legal requirements
Features
- SaaS / Ipad managed via the Cloud, Ipad preventive controls app and Corrective action app
- Completely digital- no paper for both supplier and receiving facility
- Supplier works with one integrated platform for Quality, Maintenance, Food Safety, Environmental, Traceability and Occupational Safety
- FSMA compliance built into the technology for untrained persons cannot access work if not trained for or use changed documents without re training
- Effectiveness measure – via graphs and histograms
- Automated Non-conformances – when specifications are not met or exceeded
- Error proofed – wrong data cannot be input for the process as equipment and product bar code accepted via ipad scanning
- Real time email alerts for every critical condition
- Ipad native apps – Download / Upload with Wi Fi or GSM
- Lock out Tag out, Confined space, hot work
Benefits
Supplier
- Maintains control over the production process – risk at each process step managed
- Does not need to know the fsma details – it is built into the technology
- Guarantees on-going compliance of the operations
- Conforms to GFSI
- Build out your process in the cloud for maintenance, quality, food safety, occupational safety, environmental, traceability and Prerequisites – all on technology driven Single Management System
- Download for point of use application
- Trigger a recall on-line from within the product electronic documentation
Receiving facility
- Real time access to supplier data, prior to shipping
- All suppliers on a single platform and with the same format for all documents
- No need to depend on a single annual audit to verify production – each shipment available for verification, via supplier process information
- Can record product issues online and trigger corrective action for supplier to complete digitally for a specific shipment.
Single Management System
The Technology Experience
Annual deaths from confined space amount to the thousands. In many cases the extent of training may be questionable, because if the requirements are followed it is unlikely that the deaths will follow. Therefore there is a need to be assured the legal requirements are followed and non erasable records to prove same.
There are two tablet apps applied to the ‘fsma SaaS’ system. The apps are applied at each process step point of use for control. The SaaS apps are native triggered by bar code for control. The two apps are Shecklist and Sheca.
Shecklist And Sheca
Shecklist :
Sheca :
Clones product process with only lot number change required. Programs and schedules production, maintenance, pest and sanitation planning. FSMA section 103 includes the preventive controls and stores the records (Subpart F). Receiving facilities are able to access all records. The supplier can protect their trade secrets from their receiving facilities.
The effectiveness of these controls ensures compliance. Ongoing compliance maintained by electronic checks and balances. “But first, input your accurate food safety plan into ‘fsma SaaS’ “.
Layered Control :
Verification of food safety plan prior to production, as follows:
- Training
- Pre-work
- First time validation by
- PCQI
- Operator
- PCQI internal operational verification
- Verification of requirements by receiving facilities.