ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and the National Renderers Association (NRA) have announced a partnership of two animal food safety certification programs — AFIA's FSC36 Safe Feed/Safe Food and NRA's Rendering Code of Practice (COP) — resulting in an updated and more user-friendly auditing process.
The announcement was made following updates to both FSC36 Safe Feed/Safe Food and the Rendering COP to better align with industry standards, including the soon-to-be-published regulations by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
"Updating FSC36 to align. . .