VT 5000.8 Rev 1 VERIFYING COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS FOR WRITTEN RECALL PROCEDURES

This directive provides instructions for inspection program personnel (IPP) to follow when verifying that official establishments that produce meat or poultry products establish and actively maintain the required written recall plan procedures. FSIS is reissuing this directive to include additional information on how IPP are to verify an establishment’s recall plan procedures. It also provides instructions for the use of the Public Health Information System (PHIS) in the recall plan procedures verification activity and instructs IPP to verify that establishments maintain recall plan procedures while they operate under a conditional grant of inspection.

Per 6 V.S.A. § 3305 (8), the State of Vermont adopts Title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 3, 9 CFR §§ 300.1 et seq., together with any amendments, supplements, or revisions thereto.