FSMA - Compliance Dates

Preventive Controls for Human Foods

• Sep 2017: Small Businesses (a business with fewer than 500 full-time equivalent employees)

• Sep 2016: Other businesses (more than 500 full-time equivalent employees)

The supply-chain program requirements of the Preventive Controls rule have a different set of compliance dates, depending on the size of the supplier:

• Sept 2017 or March 2018: Small Businesses: Sept 2017, or six months after the supplier is required to comply with the Preventive Controls rule (whichever is later).

• March 2017 or March 2018: Other businesses (more than 500 full-time equivalent employees): Six months after the supplier is required to comply with the preventive controls rule.

Intentional Adulteration

• May 2020: Small Businesses (business employing fewer than 500 persons)

• May 2019: Other Businesses (more than 500 full-time equivalent employees)

Foreign Supplier Verification Program

• May 2017 or March 2018: Importers must comply: Six month after the foreign supplier is required to comply with the Preventive Controls rule