Food Safety

www.asq.org/fdc
ASQ’s Food, Drug and Cosmetics Division recently developed a new Certified HACCP [Hazard Anal-ysis and Critical Control Point] Handbook. The division’s website provides updates on other ac-complishments, programs, events and courses.

www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html 
The site of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutri-tion is filled with information and links pertaining to recent media coverage, national food safety programs, documents, food defense and terrorism, inspection, compliance, recalls, and HACCP.

www.foodsafety.gov
This website brings together food safety information from several different federal departments and agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the FDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Ser-vice, and the Partnership for Food Safety Educa-tion, known as Fight Bac.

www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/management_standards/specific_applications.htm#food
The International Organization for Standardiza-tion (ISO) now offers three documents related to food safety: ISO 22000:2005 (a standard contain-ing requirements for food safety management systems); ISO/TS 22004:2005 (a standard with requirements for entities providing audit and certification of food safety management systems); and ISO/TS 22004:2005 (guidance for using ISO 22000:2005). Links to information on the documents are provided on this website.

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