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[dt2win]

What is the method for verifying the records?

 

Thanks 

DT

[Tony-C]

What is the method for verifying the records?

 

Thanks 

DT

 

Verification can be carried out by a 'qualified' person checking the records and signing them off.

 

Here are some relevant extracts from SQF Guidance:

2.2.2 Records (M)
In addition, the supplier is required to ensure that staff responsible for verifying food safety and quality records sign and date each record they review as part of their verification activities (refer 2.5.4). These responsibilities and actions must be documented in the procedure.

2.5 SQF System Verification
2.5.1 Responsibility, Frequency, and Methods
Examples of verification activities shall include review of inspection records to ensure all monitoring tasks are completed at the frequency that is defined, ensuring that internal audits occur at the frequency defined, ensuring corrective and preventative actions are effectively implemented and product testing.
2.5.4 Verification of Monitoring Activities
Monitoring records must be checked for accuracy and timeliness by someone in a position of authority. In some special cases e.g. thermal processing, the person verifying the records may need to be an approved, qualified person.
 

 

Regards,

 

Tony

Edited by Tony-C, 15 August 2014 - 05:51 AM.

[Slab]

Hi, dt2win;

 

Verification is simply a visual review by qualified personnel (i.e. certified, experienced, or intimate knowledge of process) of relevant documents. "Normally" it's a management position, and under SQF this all trails back to the practitioner. The verification step may also require interviewing staff for non-conformances, and initiating corrective actions or verifying corrective actions were sufficient.  This is verbiage which often trips people up when validation steps are thrown in the mix, so I have attached a brief example of a matrix that expresses the division between the two:

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Edited by Slab, 15 August 2014 - 10:37 AM.

[dt2win]

Thanks a lot Slab.The Matrix is very helpful.

[Charles.C]

Dear dt2win,

 

FWIW, it might also be mentioned that verification of a control measure is something rather different to "records".

 

And similarly validation for control limits.

 

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Rgds / Charles.C

 

PS - The above SQF definition for validation is, as previously discussed here,  "odd"

[Slab]

Good points, Charles.

Validation (quality assurance) = this will work

Verification (quality control) = this is working