FDA Updates Draft Guidance on Preventive Controls for Human Food
The FDA released updates Jan. 30 to two chapters of its draft guidance on its Food Safety Modernization Act regulations on preventive controls for human food. The agency added additional information to the introduction of the draft guidance, first released in 2016 (see 1608230028), as well as to an appendix that details potential hazards that may need to be addressed.
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The revised introduction to the draft guidance includes an additional section providing more information on training, as well as a “comprehensive bibliography of references” and a “compilation of resources that may be useful to someone using the guidance,” the FDA said in a constituent update.
The revised Appendix I to the guidance includes revised product categories that “better reflect food ingredients rather than finished products,” as well as an “updated discussion on food allergen hazards” and the replacement of a “series of process-related hazard tables with a discussion of those hazards,” among other things, the FDA said.
“We intend to announce the availability for public comment of additional chapters of the draft guidance as we complete them,” the FDA said. Comments on the newly updated portions of the draft guidance are due June 3, the FDA said in a notice on the updates.