Quiz 2 Questions Flashcards
The FSMA regulations require researching all of the potential hazards associated with your ingredients, and the first best place to obtain that information would be looking at ‘Wikipedia’ articles from the internet.
False
If your company experiences a food safety recall, there are specific Corrective Actions that must be implemented, including “Re-analysis of your Food Safety Plan”.
True
Your local FDA Inspector only requires that you have a written Recall Plan as part of your Food Safety Plan after your company has been involved in a Class 1 recall or a consumer has died after eating your product.
False
When an already-released-to-the-public, ready-to-eat food is tested and found to have a pathogen in it, that food must be recalled from the market place and the FDA notified. This is classified by the FDA as a Class 3 recall?
False
The FDA does not require a specific format for recalls, so all that food processors are legally required to include in a Class 1 recall notification is product name and name of the individual responsible for receiving returned food.
False
An FDA-compliant Recall Plan requires assigned steps and names of the persons responsible for notification of direct customers, consignees, and the public, responsible for conducting effectiveness checks and executing disposition of the food.
True
A recall plan is only required by the FDA for food processors whose hazard analysis identified hazard(s) requiring the use of Preventive Control(s).
True
Your FDA-compliant recall plan requires that a different named person holds each of the following listed positions of responsibility: Recall Coordinator, Operations Manager, Public Relations Representative, Marketing Specialist, Logistics Coordinator, QA technician, Administrative Support Personnel and Regulatory Compliance Attorney.
False
Your local FDA Inspector is responsible for producing the photo-ready flyer going to the grocery stores that tells the public what specific markings identify the inner packaging, outer packaging and outer cases of recalled foods.
False
External notification’ requirements in your recall plan would include contacting people such as your customers, the FDA and State recall coordinators, and the public (in the circumstance of a Class 1 recall).
True
In the situation where your company was involved in a Class 1 recall of product that was mis-branded (failed to have a contained allergen listed on the label) and your recall notification includes details of how you plan to have product sent back to your processing location for re-labeling, the FDA cannot require you to land-fill that product.
False
Periodic testing of your Food Recall Plan to verify correctness of information such as customer contacts and product description, and testing of the readiness of your Recall Team to actually perform their assigned tasks, are things that might be accomplished through the use of a “Mock Recall” exercise.
True
You only need to have a ‘trained back-up person’ for the positions and responsibilities listed on your Recall Plan if one of the people originally assigned to one of those positions was found to be un-reliable or has an arrest record.
False
