“FARM is an important Health IT system for FDA that enables a more efficient and effective process for reviewing regulatory and compliance aspects of food safety,” said Bangalore Shivacharan, -CEO and Co-Founder at TurningPoint. “Ensuring that messages that are generated by FARM are available and updated on a regular basis is critical to communication to the user community.” TurningPoint specializes in full software development lifecycle and integration projects involving mission-critical, high-transaction applications such as FARM. We have the expertise required to make these system upgrades.”

CFSAN is responsible for administering safety and labeling regulations that apply to the nation’s food, dietary supplement, and cosmetics supplies. Under the terms of the agreement, TurningPoint will develop and maintain an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema and overall business rules to support the validation of data used in the exchange of HL7 messages for food ingredient & color additive applications submitted to the FARM system.

“TurningPoint has proven experience in data modeling, XML schema practices, and governance best practices, as well as thorough domain knowledge of FDA missions and priorities,” said Mr. Shivacharan. “We have been supporting the FDA in various capacities since 2005. We are looking forward to continuing that relationship with this FARM upgrade initiative.”