Collaborative Food Safety Forum

Collaborative Implementation of FSMA

This series of workshops brought together diverse stakeholders from federal and state agencies, industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations to discuss what successful, collaborative implementation of FSMA would look like and ideas for achieving this vision. The series included six workshops over almost two years.

 

Workshop I 

Invited representatives from federal and state agencies, industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations attended a workshop on June 18, 2014, to identify attributes of a successful FSMA implementation process. This meeting drew on concepts from previous CFSF workshops, but pivoted towards a broad-based discussion focused on defining a successful implementation of FSMA, from the cross-section stakeholders needed, to the mechanisms necessary for continued stakeholder engagement and input.

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Workshop II

On September 29, 2014, participants built on ideas discussed in June and continued dialogue around attributes of successful FSMA implementation.

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Workshop III

Invited representatives from federal and state agencies, industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations attended a workshop on November 14, 2014, to refine the Collaborative Food Safety Forum approach for successful implementation of FSMA and discuss key elements and indicators that define success. This session, the third in a series of implementation-focused meetings, built on conversations which came out of a small group meeting held on September 29, 2014 and a large group meeting in June of 2014. 

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Workshop IV - Public Health-Based Metrics

On June 25-26, 2015, representatives from FDA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations attended a two-day workshop to discuss and develop potential public health-based metrics to measure the success of FSMA implementation. The discussion drew on other regulatory systems' models for evaluating impact on public health and key fundamentals of the draft Preventive Controls and Produce Safety Strategic Program Planning frameworks.

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Workshop V - Public Health-Based Metrics

On December 3, 2015, representatives from FDA, CDC, USDA, industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations attended a workshop to advance the June 25-26th discussion around measuring progress toward meeting the public health goals of FSMA and associated enhancement of food safety culture. The group determined next steps for developing short-term, mid-term, and long-term FSMA metrics, such as data collection, analysis, and information sharing.

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Workshop VI - Food Safety Culture and Associated Metrics

On May 20, 2016, representatives from FDA, CDC, USDA, industry, consumer advocacy groups, academia, and associations attended a workshop to continue discussions on food safety culture and public-health based metrics for evaluating the successful implementation of FSMA. This workshop advanced the Forum's December and June 2015 discussions related to metrics and focused primarily on the concept of food safety culture: what it is, how it's evaluated, and what different sectors can do, and have done, to build, measure, and expand food safety culture.

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