Product Safety

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Product Safety

• Animal Sciences 550
• Lynn Knipe

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Inspection Requirements

• hairnets reqd to cover hair on head, beards
  mustaches (ODA)
• Have the right to bare arms.
• White coats over street clothes for raw product
  handling
• Blue coats for cooked product handling

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• No jewelry (rings, watches, etc.)
• Separation of raw vs. cooked, fresh vs. cured
  products
• Label product
• Experimental/Not for Sale, your name, An. Sci.
  550, name of product date
• Keep tubs/pans off floor

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• Keep cardboard boxes off tables, other contact
  surfaces
• No eating/drinking in inspected areas.
• No open-toed shoes or shoes worn in barns.
• Inedible vs. trash barrels.
• Trim surface of any product touching floor or
  discard.

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Fully Cooked Products

• Contact surfaces and gloved hands cleaned
  sanitized.
• Also need clean knives, thermometers, blue
  coats.
• Separation of products in time and space.

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5 Parts of SSOP

• Must have a written plan describing daily
  procedures that establishment will conduct before
  and during operations, and frequency at which
  they will be conducted to prevent direct
  contamination or adulteration of product(s).
• Must maintain daily records.
• corrective actions.

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SSOP Continued

• Signed/dated by person with on-site authority
  upon initiation when modified.
• Must identify pre-operational and operational
  sanitation activities.
• Must identify who is responsible for
  implementing maintaining daily activities.