FSIS Notice 74-13 Review of records during Preshipment review
I need help. FSIS notice 74-13 basically says that all prerequisites are to be reviewed during preshipment sign off. In the past we review our prerequisites, ie tempering records, change over sheets, allergen sheets, CCP cook records and metal detection records when they have been completed. After the product has been packaged we will sign off in the preshipment book. Now they want you to review all the documentes at the time you are signing the preshipment book. Some of the documents are from the fresh meat room and we do not want those records in the cook side office. So this makes it hard to review all the documents during sign off. Has anyone else had to deal with this. Some productions can take up to 3 days from fresh meat room to cook room and in the package. We run about 20-30 items a day and all the prerequisite documents get reviewed and this is documented on the sheet itself. I need some ideas on how we can review the prerequisites without having all the documents in hand during sign off. Any ideas will help. Thanks and have a great day.
FSIS Notice 74-13 is attached.
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S Maddux,
We too had this issue and have put into place a Preshipment Review Procedure which states that each department will review their own records. If there are any issues regarding those prerequisite program records, product will be placed on hold. The individual signing off on the final preshipment review is to verify that there is no product on hold. Once verified, the sign off may be completed.
I have to say though, we have not had our inspectors complete their verification task regarding the FSIS Notice 74-13 as of yet. If they find an issue with the way we are completing our reviews, we will work through it with them at that time.
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