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IKE Scenario 02-05: Establishment notification prior
to sampling Ready-to-Eat (RTE) product: Process Example 2—Product Sliced over
Multiple Days You are a GS-9, CSI/IIC assigned to a patrol assignment, which includes a
very small processing facility that manufactures fully cooked sliced corned beef
under Alternative 2 (post lethality treatment), which you are verifying under
the 03G HACCP procedure code. Each
Monday, the establishment places injected product into a semi-permeable bag for
cooking. Each Tuesday, the lethality
step is conducted and stabilization is met by chilling the bagged product in a
brine solution. The brine solution
used on Tuesday for chilling purposes is discarded at the end of each
Tuesday’s operations. Slicing
operations are conducted on every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday—until all
the lots are completed. On Wednesday June 1, you receive an OPHS Directed Sample
Request (FSIS Form 10,210-3, Requested Sample Programs) for Project Number
ALLRTE. As a critical
thinker, you must determine (a) when to notify plant management of your
intention to collect the sample (b) when you would need to collect the
sample, and (c) determine a random sample collection date and time. Based on your knowledge of the establishment’s production
operations, which can take up to three days to slice and package several
production lots that were exposed to the same brine solution during
stabilization, you would realize that all of that product would be affected
regardless of when the product is sliced. You are also aware that you must notify plant management in advance of
the sample collection so that the establishment has the opportunity to place all
product(s), which may be affected, on hold in the event a positive result is
returned. By using the random number
generator on your FAIM computer you select a date and a time to collect the
intact samples (in this case it is Thursday, June 9 at 1400 hours). At 0700 hours on Wednesday June 8, you verbally notify the
establishment manager of your intent to collect intact samples of the sliced
corned beef product for microbial testing, sometime during slicing and packaging
operations on either Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Although you will not
collect the sample until Thursday, you notify the establishment on Wednesday
June 8, since affected product may also include product sliced on Wednesday.
Prior to leaving the plant manager’s office, you also provide the
manager with written notification of the intended sample collection (Form
LW-A-0032.00, To: Establishment Manager, which is included in the return sample
shipping container). At 1350 hours on Thursday June 9, you notify the
establishment manager(s) that you are going to collect the required intact
products (following the instructions in FSIS Directive 10,210.1 and 10,240.4)
and that you will be holding the samples under refrigeration, in the secured
USDA section of the cooler, until the establishment has signed pre-shipment
review for that lot. Plant
management chooses not to take a companion sample but they do inform you that
they will place the three days of slicing production on hold, since all
production lots were stabilized in the same brine solution. After you verify the establishment conducted pre-shipment
review on the identified lot, you remove the intact product samples from the
secured area and prepare the samples for shipment according to the instructions
in FSIS Directive 7355.1 (Rev.2, Amend. 1) and contact Fed-Ex for a pick-up. You complete your duties for the day by documenting an
unscheduled 05B02 procedure into the schedule as performed. |
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