The National Agricultural Law Center, a member of the Agricultural & Food Law Consortium, recently added a new article on the FSMA Animal Food Rule to its library of research publications.

A new section of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) required FDA to promulgate regulations that require animal food facilities that are required to establish and implement a food safety system that includes hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls.  Major provisions of the final rule implementing this section include those discussing current Good Manufacturing Practices, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls, supply-chain controls, and staggered compliance timelines.

John G. Dillard’s article, FSMA Animal Food Rule – Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Control, prepared as a project of the Agricultural & Food Law Consortium, discusses and analyzes the major provisions of that rule. Download the article here.

Research publications are a vital part of the Center’s mission to conduct objective, timely, and non-partisan research into agricultural and food law issues and to provide that scholarship to the agricultural and food law communities.  An index with links to our library of research publications is available here.