Robert Rogers is senior advisor for food safety and regulation at Mettler Toledo Product Inspection Group. Rogers serves as a subject matter expert to various regulatory and industry organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, and writes articles and blogs about this critical industry issue.
The U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires that food manufacturing and processing companies identify potential hazards in their production systems and then put in place preventive controls to address those hazards.