### Question
What does preventive controls mean?


### Answer
**Preventive controls** has the following meaning in *21 U.S.C. § 350g*:

> those risk-based, reasonably appropriate procedures, practices, and processes that a person knowledgeable about the safe manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding of food would employ to significantly minimize or prevent the hazards identified under the hazard analysis conducted under subsection (b) and that are consistent with the current scientific understanding of safe food manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding at the time of the analysis

#### Citation:
  - *21 U.S.C. § 350g*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 9-FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT > SUBCHAPTER IV-FOOD**

