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The following information is from the foodsafety.com on October 20, 2015.

The FDA has published the final versions of the Food Safety Management Act (FSMA). "FSMA is built around what FDA refers to as its 7 Pillars. These Pillars include Preventive Controls for Human Food, Preventive Controls for Animal Food, Produce Safety, Sanitary Transportation, Food Defense, Foreign Supplier Verification and Third-Party Auditor Rules. The preventive control rules for both human and animal food were released by FDA and published in the Federal Register on September 17, 2015." Companies will need to have a Written Food Safety Plan and Current Good Manufacturing Practices.
Deadlines for compliance and more information are listed in the this article

The following information is from the FDA and foodsafety.com on September 10, 2015.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls for Human Food rule is now final, and compliance dates for some businesses begin in September 2016.
Broadly, the rules require registered food facilities to maintain a food safety plan, perform a hazard analysis, and institute preventive controls for dealing with those hazards. Facilities also have to verify and document that their controls are working.
Very small businesses have three years to comply with the rules, small businesses have two years, and the rest have one year.