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News
Central States Bottled Water Association Presents
Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) Workshop
August 17-19, 2017
Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center
Chesterfield, MO
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practices, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food (i.e., the Preventive Controls Rule) includes a requirement that food facilities have preventive controls qualified individuals (PCQIs) on staff.
- The FDA has designated a number of tasks that the Preventive Controls Qualified Individual must perform or oversee(see brochure for details).
- THE DEADLINE IS HERE!!!
- The Preventive Controls rule requires that plants have a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual within one year of the publication date(September 17, 2015) of the Preventive Controls Rule(September 2016).
- Plants classified as “Small”(500 or fewer employees) have until September 2017 to have a PCQI on staff.
- Plants classified as “Very Small”(less than 1 million dollars in revenue) have until September 2018.
- The CSBWA is pleased to announce a PCQI Workshop at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center, Chesterfield, MO for August 17-19, 2017. This workshop will provide anyone in the bottled water industry an opportunity to become a PCQI for their facility(ies) in compliance with the new Preventive Controls Rule.
Click here for Brochure: CSBWA PCQI Brochure
IMPORTANT NOTE-August 9 REGISTRATION AND HOTEL DEADLINE
The Room Registration Deadline for the PCQI Workshop is Thursday, August 3. Our deadline with the FDA is Wednesday, August 9. Since the FDA requires one week’s lead time on materials, this deadline cannot be extended.
Officers and Directors
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CSBWA Officers and Directors President: Jon Ove, Century Springs; Gennessee Depot, WI First Vice President: Brad Ozbun, Hall’s Culligan, Wichita, KS Second Vice President: Nicole Allison, Magnetic Springs, Columbus, OH Secretary-Treasurer: Sam Broh; LCPF Management Group, LLC, St. Louis, MO Director-Term Expires 2018 Glen Davis; Absopure; Plymouth, MI Pat McVay, Amcon/Genco Bottlers, Springfield, MO Bob Riefers; Maumee Valley Bottlers; Napoleon, OH Steve Tischler; NTL Laboratories; Cleveland, OH Director-Year Term expires 2019 Kevin Schlemme, Culligan of Davenport, Clinton, & Burlington, Davenport, IA Joe Filipowski, Bell Sales, inc., Pittsburgh, PA Heidi Charlesworth, Premium Waters, Chippewa Falls, WI Committee Chairs Government Relations: Steve Tischler; NTL Labs; Cleveland, OH Education: Heidi Charlesworth, Premium Waters, Chippewa Falls, WI Convention: Susan Edwards; SVF Waters, LLC; Occonee, IL Membership: Bob Riefers; Maumee Valley Bottlers; Napoleon, OH Communications & Publications: Steve Tischler; NTL Labs; Cleveland, OH Technical: Glen Davis; Absopure; Plymouth, MI Supplier: Joe Filipowski; Bell Sales; Pittsburgh, PA Past Presidents Susan Edwards, SVF Waters, LLC Mike Schaefer, Culligan of Perryville |