October is filled with special food days. And every day, all day, awesome trucking companies make the deliveries we need for our celebrations.
Kale and taco aficionados partied on October 4th. Next week, we have National Gumbo Day, Angel Food Cake Day, and …Moldly Cheese Day? 😕
We can eat these foods because a trucking company delivered them to one of our favorite stores. And chances are good that these stores have required these suppliers to sign a contract for their transportation services.
In most contracts for transportation, food companies include a term that requires compliance with FSMA. It’s not the most prominent part of a contract and may even look like boilerplate language. But it’s a common contractual section in most food transportation contracts.
If you know it’s there and are complying, yay! Keep up the good work! 👏
If you know it’s there but don’t really know what it means or how to comply, ask your customer for specifics. FSMA requires that they do this anyway. Keep track of your requests for information.
They may not know what to specify, so here’s where you can help them.
Let them know the
Frequency of your trailer sanitation procedures,
Methods you use to clean your trailers,
The cargo you transport and
The training you provide for your employees to know the above three items.
**Always document (date and who) and make sure you have someone in charge to manage this information.
Give your customer a chance to check out your protocols and add/delete. If they don’t care, do the work anyway so that if the day arrives when they do care, you are prepared!
See? It doesn't have to be complicated.
A short, simple list for you to get started with your contract compliance. ☑
Let the food celebrations continue! 🍓 🧀 🌮
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