New Foreign Supplier Tuna Verification Rule by the FDA
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Now there is new supplier tuna verification rule made by the FDA for tuna food
import into the United State area. United State itself is one of the biggest
tuna importer nations, as example in 2012 there are more than twenty three
millions of canned tuna cartons are imported into the nation. This show that
there are many products made using tuna fish as the ingredient which imported
into the nation. With the risk available on the tuna fish product which made
outside the country, make FDA want to make sure that the products which enter
the country is indeed safe.
FDA Foreign Supplier Tuna Verification Rule
The new supplier tuna verification rule itself is only done to foreign supplier as part
of the new FSMA act and rule. This act stated that all food item importers
including food made from tuna ingredient should be accountable and able to
verify that the tuna making process they do in foreign country already
implement modern technology with prevention oriented practice on the food
safety of their product. Thus the new FSVP rule is created as the
implementation of this new act which created to ensure the safety of the product
made by foreign food supplier including tuna supplier.
With this new supplier
tuna verification rule, the supplier will need to give sufficient
guarantee that the tuna product item they imported is created with the required
procedure and process which includes the risk prevention based control. The FDA
will use a third party rule for the accreditation rule. With this rule FDA will
be able to ensure the independence of auditor from third party which will do
the auditing process for the food safety of the supplier production in the
foreign country.
Actually verification conduct itself is
already very common thing which done directly by the company to their foreign
supplier. However with this new supplier tuna
verification rules which directly done by the FDA means that the
verification auditing is now have become a legal requirement for every company.
This new rule might be done by the FDA as their respond in the food safety
challenge, which has become a new concern on food system by many countries
globally.
Furthermore in the united state, the food product
which made using tuna as the ingredient is imported from twenty different
country. Meanwhile other kind of food products which made using different
ingredient are imported from more than one hundred and fifty different country.
From the report, it is stated that the seafood product which consumed by the
American is actually ninety percent of it is imported from abroad. This is the
reason why FDA implement this new rule, so whenever American eat any kinds of
food product whether it is comes from imported product or local product they
can rest assure and feel safe with what they eat. Especially, since it is the
concern that many global people have today.
With the supplier
tuna verification rule which already been implemented in the first half
of 2017, it is hoped that FDA can face the challenge which faced by all of the
global people regarding the food supply which actually very complex system. Of
course, the success of this act will highly depend on the partnership with many
people in different nation especially inside the business and industrial sector
which involved in this act.
The purpose of this act is so FDA is able
to verify that the tuna food which made by supplier in foreign country is still
using production process which has the same health protection level as the
production process which done inside united state. Thus with this rule there is
no tuna product which will be misbranded or adulterated regarding the allergen
labeling. This is the new and very important reason which becomes the purpose
of this new act.
With the implementation of this new rule, then
the supplier which imports the tuna food product will also be responsible on
the safety of each of the tuna food product that they bring inside the country.
Meanwhile the supplier tuna verification
rule will act as preventive measurement which done inside the system itself.
Thus it is hoped that the rule can effectively prevent any misconduct which may
happen inside the production system done by the supplier.