Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP)

FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires importers to have a documented program verifying that their foreign suppliers produce food at the same level of public health protection required by U.S. preventive controls and produce safety regulations — and that food is neither adulterated nor misbranded with respect to allergen labeling.

Don’t wait until an FDA inspection to get your FSVP in order. Our training gives you the tools and confidence to build a compliant program from the ground up.

Topics will include:

• Introduction to the FSVP
• The FSVP Process
• Preventive Controls and Produce Safety Session
• Hazard Analysis
• Evaluation and Approval of Foreign Supplier
• Foreign Supplier Verification
• Reevaluation Foreign Supplier Performance
• Importer Identification
• Importance of Records
• FDA Oversight

Importers must establish and follow written procedures to ensure that they import foods only from foreign suppliers approved based on an evaluation of the risk posed by the imported food and the supplier’s performance or, when necessary on a temporary basis, from unapproved suppliers whose foods are subjected to adequate verification activities before being imported.

Importers are required to develop, maintain and follow an FSVP for each food brought into the United States and the foreign supplier of that food. If the importer obtains a certain food from a few different suppliers, a separate FSVP would be required for each of those suppliers.

The training will also cover hazard analysis, evaluation of food risk and supplier performance, supplier verification, corrective actions and exemptions and modified standards.

Participants will receive an official FSPCA FSVP certificate of completion after the class.

For more information on this rule, please visit the FDA webpage here: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm361902.htm

Please click the following for a downloadable flyer of the Food Safety class schedule: Food Safety Summer/Fall 2026