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Food Defense Verification Program for Meat, Poultry, Egg, and Fish Suppliers and Cold Storage Facilities

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service sent this bulletin at 12/01/2016 01:53 PM EST

Food Defense Verification Program

Meat, Poultry, Egg, and Fish Suppliers and Cold Storage Facilities

The LPS Quality Assessment Division (QAD) performs Food Defense audits for meat, poultry, egg, and fish product suppliers—as well as cold storage operators—who want to provide assurance to their customers that they maintain documented and operational food defense/food security measures. The Food Defense Verification Program is offered on a voluntary, fee-for-service basis.

The Food Defense Verification Program satisfies the requirements of the USDA Foods commodity purchase programs, specifically that all contractors and subcontractors have a documented and operational food defense plan that provides for the security of a plant’s production processes and includes the storage and transportation of pre-production raw materials and other ingredients and post-production finished products.

More information about this program is now available on the AMS website: Food Defense Program

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