I just listened to a webinar by Marc Sanchez, an FDA attorney about FSMA. FSMA is an FDA regulation and from what Mr. Sanchez said, FSMA does not apply to USDA regulated facilities.
I asked Marc if FSMA would and should be covered by BRC for meat processing facilities. He said that BRC should skip over that section for meat processing.
With food fraud being so new to BRC and everyone seemingly scrambling to cover this section before the Issue 7 BRC audit, has anyone in meat processing encountered BRC stating they will skip over this section? I am less than two weeks away from my audit and although I have prepared my team throughly on the subject, I am interested if anyone in the meat processing industry has gone through their version 7 audit?
The other thing to note is that Mr. Sanchez stated that if you are a USDA inspected facility and your suppliers are FDA regulated, FSMA still does not apply.