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Healthy INSIDER Podcast 91: FSMA's Requirement for a Preventive Controls Qualified IndividualHealthy INSIDER Podcast 91: FSMA's Requirement for a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a new food safety law that applied to foods, including dietary supplement, requires all food facilities to have a preventive controls qualified individual (PCQI) to maintain a food safety plan. However, many brands in the supplement industry don't have a qualified individual on staff. In this podcast, Larissa Pavlick, vice president of global regulatory and compliance, United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), discusses FSMA, PCQIs, industry quality initiatives and more.

Sandy Almendarez

June 27, 2017

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a new food safety law that applied to foods, including dietary supplement, requires all food facilities to have a preventive controls qualified individual (PCQI) to maintain a food safety plan. However, many brands in the supplement industry don’t have a qualified individual on staff. In this podcast, Larissa Pavlick, vice president of global regulatory and compliance, United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), discusses FSMA, PCQIs, industry quality initiatives and more. They cover:

  • What FSMA changed about food safety and food manufacturing.

  • What is in included in a solid, legally compliant food safety plan.

  • The new quality initiative the Dietary Supplement Quality Collaborative (DSQC) and how it should help weed out industry “bad actors” while helping quality brands.

This podcast was recorded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as part of the annual United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) member retreat.

About the Author(s)

Sandy Almendarez

editor in chief, Informa

Sandy Almendarez entered the natural products industry in 2009 when she joined Virgo Publishing (now Informa Exhibitions) as an assistant editor. Since then, she's worked her way up to editor in chief where she writes, edits and manages content for INSIDER. Under Sandy’s direction, INSIDER has won editorial awards from Folio: every year since 2014, including B2B Editorial Team of the Year in 2015.

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