Sanitation SSOPs

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Sanitation SSOPs
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Sanitation

• Purpose
• Importance
• Not only safety
• Increase shelf-life
• Also address facilities, equipment design, and
  other issues

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What is Sanitation?

• Just equipment clean up??
• Regulatory Requirements
• USDA-FSIS
• FDA
• SSOPs
• Important pre-requisite program

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Regulatory Requirements - SSOPs

• Meat and Poultry
• 9 CFR 416 SSOPs
• Detailed Daily Procedures
• Monitor
• Sign and Date
• Must Address facilities, equipment and utensils
• Must define frequency
• Must identify person responsible for procedure

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Other SSOPS Requirements

• Maintenance
• Corrective Actions
• Recordkeeping
• Agency Verification

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Developing SSOPs

• Appendix A and B
• Pre-Operational Sanitation
• Operational Sanitation

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Implementing SSOPs

• Identification of Responsible Individual
• Procedure
• Monitoring
• Define Procedures that Validate Effectiveness of
  SSOP
• Specify method, frequency and recordkeeping
  processes associated with the SSOP
• Corrective Actions

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Regulatory Expectations

• Do NOT need a detailed manual. Simple,
  step-by-step written descriptions are adequate.
• Examples
• Approved Sanitizer
• Equipment Disassembly

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Fish and Fishery Sanitation

• Must comply with cGMPs
• RECOMMENDED that SSOPs be developed
• Issues
• Records

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Summary

• Importance of Sanitation
• NOT just Cleaning equipment!!!