Which of the following is NOT a component of the FSMA Food Safety Plan?

• A. Environmental health surveillance
• B. Hazard analysis
• C. Recall plan
• D. Preventive controls

Answer: (A)

The FSMA Food Safety Plan is built around proactively controlling identified hazards in the facility. It starts with hazard analysis to pinpoint biological, chemical, or physical hazards that could contaminate food, then implements preventive controls to prevent or mitigate those hazards. It includes ongoing monitoring to ensure controls stay in spec, corrective actions for deviations, and verification activities to confirm the plan works. Written records support accountability, and there is a recall plan to remove adulterated product if needed. Supplier programs for ingredients are also part of the overall framework.

Environmental health surveillance, whilevaluable for public health and outbreak detection, is not a formal required component of the FSMA Food Safety Plan. It may inform risk understanding, but the plan’s mandatory elements are hazard analysis, preventive controls, monitoring, corrective actions, verification, recall, and supplier controls.

So the item that does not fit as a FSMA Food Safety Plan component is environmental health surveillance.