NetZealous LLC Food and Beverages

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NetZealous LLC Food and Beverages
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• Food and beverages are considered an area of high
  importance for FDA regulation. This is natural,
  because while food is the most essential nutrient
  needed for the human body it also comes with its
  own risks and drawbacks, if prepared or handled
  improperly. Food is universal in its consumption,
  and man has living on food from times immemorial.
  

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• Because of the enormous potential food has for
  causing diseases if cooked or stored or
  transported wrongly, regulation for food has
  become absolutely essential. These regulations
  are certainly the toughest to not only formulate,
  but to also implement, because food is so
  prevalent and the chances of contamination are so
  high and widespread that care has to be taken to
  ensure that the regulations are implemented quite
  literally till the last morsel.

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• Most regulatory bodies pair beverages with food
  regulations because of the similarity in their
  natures, and also because they are usually seen
  as being inseparable from each other. That said,
  the major challenge in enforcing food and
  beverage regulations is that we live in a highly
  globalized world today. While production of food
  has locations its consumption has almost none.
  Food can be produced in one part of the world,
  could be stored in another, and consumed in yet
  another.

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A bevy of food and beverage regulations

• Yet, regulatory bodies do not get daunted or give
  up on food and beverages regulations. It makes no
  sense to formulate a general, blanket set of
  regulations for the food and beverages industries
  and expect the entire world to comply with a
  globally created set of regulations. There are
  many food and beverages regulations that are in
  place in different parts of the world. Several
  agencies such as the UN, the FDA, the ISO and the
  Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have
  regulations for food and beverages.
  Understandably, these regulations are global in
  nature.

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• Likewise, there are national, regional and local
  regulations concerning food and beverages within
  nearly all the countries of the world. And then,
  there are also common food and beverages that
  apply to blocs and groupings such as the European
  Union (EU). These are framed keeping in mind the
  unique situations and circumstances of the
  different populaces of the word. This explains
  the diversity of food and beverages regulations,
  as well as the difficulty in enforcing these on a
  global or regional or even domestic scale.

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• Regulations meant to ensure the safety of food
  and beverages in North America can never be the
  same as those in Africa. While in advanced
  countries and regions of the world, the emphasis
  is on preventing contamination and what is called
  bioterrorism, which will be discussed later the
  priority for developing countries could be more
  basic, like ensuring supply of water for basic
  needs such as drinking and sanitation and making
  sure that wherever and whenever available, this
  supply meets minimum hygiene requirements.

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The FDAs regulations on food and beverages

• The FDA has many regulations on food and
  beverages. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
  Title 21 is a complete list of regulatory
  guidelines this regulatory body has put in place
  for ensuring the quality of food throughout the
  food chain. CFR 21 has guidelines on a whole host
  of activities pertaining to food in all its
  elements, such as display of food content and
  nutritional information on the packet, the nature
  and proportion of the ingredients, the name and
  location of the manufacturer, calorie content of
  the food, tendency of the food made by a
  particular manufacturer to cause or be an agent
  for the cause of diseases and conditions such as
  diabetes, cancer, hypertension or heart disease,
  and so on, as well as information about the
  presence of allergens in the food.

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• The FDA also has very elaborate instructions
  relating to the food and beverage industry, such
  as how to handle recalls, outbreaks and
  emergencies, how to prevent foodborne diseases,
  and so on. In addition, the FDA also has a number
  of regulations that relate to Good Manufacturing
  Practices (GMPs), how to report adverse events,
  what a food or beverage manufacturing facility
  should do to prevent being issued a 483 by the
  FDA, and what to do when it is issued one.

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Bioterrorism

• On top of all these, the FDA has also taken
  highly detailed steps in relation to
  bioterrorism. Bioterrorism is a form of attack
  on food and beverages by the disease-causing
  agents found freely in nature, such as viruses,
  bacteria or other toxins. This is done by
  terrorists to deliberately cause harm to humans
  through the food they consume. In order to
  prevent this, the federal government formulated
  the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism
  Preparedness and Response Act in 2002.

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• Called the Bioterrorism Act in short, this
  legislation directs and authorizes the FDA to
  take urgent and effective steps to protect the
  public from threats arising out of bioterrorism
  throughout the food chain in the US. It seeks to
  assure public safety by preventing bioterrorism
  by taking a number of steps in this direction.
  One of these is the mandatory registration of
  certain kinds of facilities with the FDA. This is
  done to help the FDA zero in on the possible site
  of a bioterror attack, should one happen. Dietary
  supplements, infant food formulae, beverages,
  fruits and vegetables and foods of almost all
  types come under the classification of facilities
  that need to be registered with the FDA.

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The HACCP

• Another mechanism meant for ensuring the safety
  of food and beverages is the Hazard Analysis and
  Critical Control Points (HACCP), a systematic
  approach that the US FDA and the United States
  Department of Agriculture (USDA) require from
  manufacturers and suppliers of food and beverages
  in the country. Largely aimed at controlling the
  spread of bioterrorism through protection of
  products from the meat and fish industries HACCP
  is an important program of the federal government
  in ensuring that food contamination can be
  contained at any stage of the food chain. HACCP
  can be implemented along with standards such as
  the generalized ISO 22000 and programs of The
  Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), such
  as The Poultry Products Inspection Act, Federal
  Meat Inspection Act, some parts of the
  Agricultural Marketing Act, The Humane Slaughter
  Act, and The Egg Products Inspection Act. As a
  rule, HACCP provisions relating to meat are
  regulated by the USDA, while those relating to
  juices and seafood are regulated by the FDA.

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NetZealous LLCs trainings on food related
legislations

• The need for professional trainings in the areas
  of food safety is absolutely essential, when one
  takes the complete picture of the food and
  beverages manufacturing, supply and consumption
  chain across the globe. In the US, the standards
  set out for these industries are extremely high.
  So, industries in the food and beverages business
  have to ensure that they meet the very high
  standards of regulatory requirements set out by
  the FDA and other agencies.

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• It is in areas like this that a professional
  trainings provider of repute, such as NetZealous
  LLC can be of great value to organizations in the
  food and beverages industries that are required
  to meet regulatory requirements. NetZealous LLC
  has experts from around the world who have worked
  extensively with the FDA-regulated industries.
  Their experience enables them to help regulatory
  professionals and industries comply with
  regulatory requirements.

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• NetZealous LLCs experts have solid experience in
  handling issues relating to foods and beverages,
  such as
• HACCP
• The seven principles of HACCP
• Monitoring and documenting critical control
  points
• Food safety and risk assessment
• Sanitation, allergens, pest control
• ISO 22000
• Bioterrorism Act
• Food processing
• Food marketing
• http//www.netzealous.com/

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