The Development of a Comprehensive Food Recall System

FDA召回合作协议(U18)RFA-FD-12-026 建议书摘要 华盛顿州农业部(WSDA)向美国食品和药物管理局寻求资金 药品管理局(FDA)根据RFA-12-026。申请的资金水平为300,000美元，用于 三年的期限。我们建议的标题是： “全面食品召回制度的发展。” 如果获奖，WSDA将聘请一名全职项目召回协调员来增强和扩大 该机构在保护公众健康方面的努力。目前，WSDA处理召回是为了回应人类 与产品相关的疾病报告，或对食品或食品中发现的病原体的反应 饲料产品。随着每一次召回，我们现有的一名或多名经理将从他们的常规职责中转移 处理与受影响的处理器/总代理商的接口，以便帮助他们 信息收集、其应报告的食品或饲料注册(RFR)职责以及其他 进入有效召回程序的细节。实际上，我们的经理承担了召回的角色 协调员。每当经理从他们的日常活动中抽身时，其他重要的事情 工作被推迟或未完成。此外，WSDA多次需要要求FDA 西雅图地区办事处协助公司召回，即使没有州际产品贸易。 此外，WSDA对过敏原的有限战略一直是向以下人员发出合规警告信 不符合过敏原要求的公司。这些警告信随后被提供给FDA 可能启动自己的检查，导致由于持续的不合规担忧而召回。 通过这一奖项，WSDA可以开发出主动过敏原召回，从而进一步保护公众 健康。 WSDA长期以来一直与其他州机构合作，以提高我们在召回方面的有效性。一 这方面的重要例子是我们在过去两年里为改进食品加工机所做的持续努力， 地方卫生管辖权，以及关于食品召回如何在 华盛顿州。食品加工商和仓库操作员更了解 如何有效地进行召回更有可能减少每个人的工作量，如果和何时 他们需要进行食品召回。这些知识也有助于提高召回的效率 而且很有效。2010年9月和2012年初，WSDA与FDA西雅图地区合作 华盛顿州卫生部，华盛顿州立大学食品科学办公室 计划，并领导华盛顿食品行业企业举办五个重点研讨会 仅仅是关于食品安全召回的“方法和原因”。这次培训很受欢迎，超过了 WSDA计划在2013年重复举办这一研讨会，共有175人参加。八小时美食 迄今为止完成的召回研讨会是在两个FDA食品保护部门的资助下完成的 会议拨款，许多志愿者时间，以及WSDA和主要参与者之间的团队合作 在我们全州的食品召回中。 虽然我们努力让人们知道需要为食品安全召回做好准备是重要的， 我们的机构必须提高自己的能力，以同样的水平处理这些召回的所有方面 我们从我们监管的行业中寻求专业知识和彻底性。新的全职召回 协调员将取消我们现在用来处理召回的临时基础。如果我们拿到这个奖， 我们计划集中力量执行人造食品标准3、5、6和7 监管程序标准(MFRP)，因为它们与过敏原检查有关，召回， 合规性和行业外延。特别是，我们将改进我们的记录保存，并完成 更彻底地跟进食品召回。我们还将发起一项新的、积极的 对WSDA未申报的过敏原检查结果的反应和遵从性策略 特别是在我们仅在州内分销产品的食品加工商中。这将戏剧性地 提高我们的召回效力，保护公众健康。

FDA Recall Cooperative Agreement (U18) RFA-FD-12-026 Proposal Abstract The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) seeks funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under RFA-12-026. The funding level requested is for $300,000 for a three year period. The title of our proposal is: "The Development of a Comprehensive Food Recall System." If awarded, WSDA will hire a full-time project Recall Coordinator to enhance and expand the agency's efforts in protecting public health. Currently WSDA handles recalls in response to human illness reports that are associated with a product, or in response to pathogen findings in food or feed products. With each recall, one or more of our existing managers shift from their regular duties to handle the interface with the affected processor/distributor, in order to aid them with their information collection, their Reportable Food or Feed Registration (RFR) responsibilities, and other details that go into an effective recall. In effect, our managers take on the role of a recall coordinator. Whenever a manager is pulled away from their day-to-day activities other important work is delayed or goes undone. In addition, many times WSDA has needed to request the FDA Seattle District office to assist firms with recalls, even if there is no interstate commerce of product. In addition, WSDA's limited strategy on allergens has been to issue compliance warning letters to firms that fail to meet allergen requirements. Those warning letters are then provided to FDA who may initiate their own inspection, resulting in recalls due to continued non-compliance concerns. Thru this award WSDA could develop an active allergen recall thereby further protecting public health. WSDA has long worked with other state agencies to improve our effectiveness on recalls. One important example of this is our sustained effort over the past two years to improve food processor, local health jurisdiction, and academic knowledge on how food recalls are accomplished in the state of Washington. Food processors and warehouse operators who have a better understanding of how effective recalls are undertaken are more likely to reduce everyone's workload, if and when they need to conduct a food recall. This knowledge also helps to make the recalls more efficient and effective. In September 2010, and early 2012, WSDA teamed up with the FDA Seattle District Office, the Washington State Department of Health, Washington State University's Food Science Program, and leading Washington food industry businesses to present five workshops focused solely on the "hows and whys" of food safety recalls. This training was so well received, with over 175 attendees participating, WSDA plans to repeat the workshop in 2013. The eight hour food recall workshops completed to date were accomplished with funding from two FDA Food Protection Conference grants, many volunteer hours, and teamwork between WSDA and key players involved in food recalls across our state. While our efforts to get the word out on the need to be prepared for food safety recalls is important, our agency must improve its own ability to handle all aspects of these recalls with the same level of expertise and thoroughness we seek from the industry we regulate. A new full-time Recall Coordinator will eliminate the ad hoc basis we now use to handle recalls. If we receive this award, we plan on focusing our effort on implementing Standards 3, 5, 6 and 7 of the Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards (MFRPS) as they pertain to allergen inspections, recalls, compliance and industry outreach. In particular, we will improve our recordkeeping and complete a much more thorough follow through on food recalls. We will also initiate a new and aggressive response and compliance strategy to WSDA inspectional findings of undeclared allergens, particularly in our food processors with intrastate only product distribution. This will dramatically improve our recall effectiveness and protect public health.