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| IKE Scenario 01-09 - Conducting Weekly Meetings to Discuss the
Review of Data Generated by Prerequisite Programs that May Affect the Hazard Analysis and Food Safety |
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IKE scenarios are a tool
that FSIS inspection program personnel can use to better understand
Agency policy. In addition, the IKE scenario result may be just one
approach to address a specific situation and is not intended to be
a definitive answer, indicating there may be multiple approaches.
Purpose
FSIS Directive 5000.2, Rev. 2, Review of Establishment Testing Data by Inspection Program
Personnel (PDF Only), provides the basis for this scenario.
Situation
You are a GS-9 relief Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) assigned to a large sliced deli meat establishment.
You scheduled a weekly meeting with plant management after you perform a scheduled 03G01 procedure.
You decide to verify the recordkeeping requirement and proceed to the on-site laboratory dedicated
to company testing. While standing in the lab, you also observe APC plates resting by the colony
counter and incubator. You request the APC records, but the QA staff refuses.
At this point, you proceed to the weekly meeting.
Resolution
During the meeting, you provide a copy of FSIS Directive 5000.2, Rev. 2. The establishment
representative states that he is not familiar with the revised directive.
During the meeting, you state that you have observed environmental swabbing in the post-lethality
slicing and packaging room and APC plates in the lab today. You state that you would like to see
the results of that testing.
Establishment management informs you that a purchaser of deli meat from the establishment requires
quantitative tests for APC. Management expresses its understanding that these records are not
subject to FSIS review because they were created for a client.
You advise management that the records are subject to review by FSIS because they could reveal
that an insanitary condition exists or is developing, and because they are records that bear on
whether a hazard is reasonably likely to occur under 9 CFR 417.5(a)(1). The APC results reflect
the sanitary conditions within the post-lethality processing environment and would likely affect
the assessment of the hazard analysis at the slicing and packaging step of the process.
Establishment management agrees to provide the APC records and sends the HACCP coordinator to
retrieve the records from the food safety office.
After review of the results with the establishment, you document a memorandum to the file
that an APC and Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) records review was conducted and test results
were discussed with the establishment at the weekly meeting. In the documentation, you list
the test results reviewed for a specific time period. You also include the establishment response
to your request to provide APC records during your Lm record review in the laboratory and final outcome.
Access the IKE Scenario home page and review previously posted IKEs from
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Employees/
IKE_Scenarios/index.asp
This information should also be shared with establishment management.
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Last Modified:
April 22, 2009 |
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