While managing systems designed to mitigate risk and follow food safety regulations, there often is a lot of confusion around what needs to be validated versus verified. Though many food manufacturers use these terms interchangeably, not adhering to each definition accurately could put food safety in jeopardy.
TAG’s Director of Food Safety, Ranjeet Klair, will give real-world examples of how this confusion had cost companies lost productivity and revenue due to non-compliance, and will provide clear definitions for validation and verification within the FSMA framework, with steps to take for each process.