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Sosland Purchasing Seminar
June 5-7, 2016
Kansas City, MO

Dairy-Deli-Bake 2016 Expo
June 5-7, 2016
International Dairy Deli Bakery Assoc.

Food Defense Coordinator
June 7-9, 2016
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Food Marketing Institute
June 20-23, 2016
Chicago, IL

BEMA Annual Meeting
June 22-25, 2016
The Omni Homestead Resort
Hot Springs, Virginia 24445

RBA Certification Testing
August 13 & 14, 2016
Ivy Tech Community College,
Indianapolis, IN

The Business of Baking
RPIA
October 7, 2016
IBIE in Las Vegas, Nevada

IBIE
International Baking Industry Expo
ABA, BEMA, RBA
October 8 - 11, 2016
Las Vegas, NV
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FDA Issues Final Rule to Protect Food from Intentional Adulteration
Important information for the baking industry. 
On May 27, 2016, FDA finalized its seventh and final food safety rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The Intentional Adulteration rule establishes requirements to help protect food against adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm to public health, including acts of terrorism. For the first time, domestic and foreign food facilities will be required to complete and maintain written food defense plans assessing their potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination where the intent is to cause wide-scale public health harm.

Under FDA guidelines, a bakery would need to register as a food facility if it's wholesale component is exceeds its retail component.  There is no exception for size.  Food facilities that qualify as "very small business" (sales less than $10 million annually) may have more time to comply with rules if specified.
 
From the FDA's Guidance for the Industry:
 
10. Retail Food Establishments:
 
10.5 Q: If a bakery primarily sells its food directly to consumers, but 40% of its annual sales are to wholesale facilities, does the bakery have to be registered?

A:  No. The bakery is a retail food establishment and does not need to be registered. A "retail food establishment" is exempt from registration if the annual monetary value of sales of food products directly to consumers exceeds the annual monetary value of sales of food products to all other buyers (21 CFR 1.226(c) and 1.227(b)(11)). More Information
 
For the complete  Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Facility Registration please use the link below: