The Law of the Preventive Controls for Human and Animal Food Rule

Course Code: FSC 852

Credits: 3 credits

Photo of a woman wearing a safety vest and touching a monitor on a factory machine.

Watch a 2.5 minute video introduction to this course from Prof. Scott Haskell.

This course focuses on understanding the human and animal food rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA is the most substantial reform of food safety laws in more than seven decades. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed seven new food safety regulations, each of which directly affects the vast and extremely complex domestic human food and animal feed systems.

The course offers an in-depth look at the relationship between the FDA, industry, consumer interest groups, and science communities. Students will learn the major provisions of the Rule, evaluate FDA’s limitations, explore animal feed changes, examine current issues in food law pertaining to FSMA, and investigate the intersection between science and law.

We will utilize a multidisciplinary approach to explore the expanding and critical role that FSMA has assumed within the domestic and global marketplace. Students will integrate many of the concepts of food law and regulations into an understanding the human and animal food rules of FSMA and subsequent food safety and trade issues. Critical thinking concepts and communications skills will be enhanced by topic discussions, weekly ‘FSMA and the News’, and relevant readings. 

The following topics will be covered:

  • Overview of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
  • Current good manufacturing practice, for human food
  • Current good manufacturing practice, for animal feed
  • The essential elements of an implementable food safety plan
  • Food safety plan development
  • Implementable record keeping requirements
  • Principles of HARPC and HACCP
  • The risked-based preventive controls and how they are utilized
  • FSMA and animal food labeling requirements
  • Exemptions to the Rule and modified requirements
  • Future challenges and opportunities

Schedule:

This course is offered in the spring semester. 

Details

Registration instructions and tuition rates depend on your enrollment status.

Click here for details if you are interested in taking this course through the MS in Food Regulatory Affairs.

Click here if you wish to enroll for a single course, or wish to work towards a certificate in international or United States food law.

Click here if you wish to take the course for "info only" and not apply them towards a future certificate or degree.

Help

Please contact Mary Gebbia at iflr@msu.edu with questions about our programs or for help with enrollment.

 
 

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