This directive provides inspection program personnel (IPP) with instructions for verifying that meat and poultry establishments identify, segregate, and properly hold adulterated product that has been returned to the establishment or plant or has been received by the establishment or plant for further processing. Also, this directive addresses IPP’s responsibility to verify that an establishment or plant holds products in an appropriate manner pending receipt of FSIS laboratory results.

Updated to reflect that the determination as to whether meat and poultry products are not adulterated will be withheld, and thus not eligible to enter commerce, until all test results that bear on the determination have been received
Updated to remove PBIS procedure codes and include Public Health Information System (PHIS) Inspection Task names

The purpose of this directive is to clarify that inspection program personnel have access to a wide range of records under the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control (HACCP) regulations (9 CFR part 417), and that they are to use that access to review certain types of records on a regular basis.
NOTE: This directive does not address Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs) records verification. All instructions related to verification of Sanitation SOP records are addressed in VT Directive 5000.1, Chapter I.
FSIS is reissuing this directive to instruct inspection program personnel on how to document that they conducted the weekly record review and to provide additional information on how to review establishment records.

This directive sets out the Agency’s specific procedures regarding ethical employee conduct, specifically related to employee assignment restrictions and gifts from regulated establishments (i.e., official meat and poultry products establishments, or facilities receiving voluntary inspection).

This directive provides procedures for supervisors who conduct, document, and report on Enforcement Investigation and Analysis Officer (EIAO) assessments.
• Introduces the EIAO Assessment Form

This directive provides revised procedures for supervisors who conduct, document, and report on IPPS assessments.
• Introduces a revised IPPS Assessment Form
• Introduces new guidance on conducting an IPPS
• Merges content from the IPPS Supervisory Guide

The Weights and Measures Section of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM)
has the responsibility to test the accuracy and use of laser scanning and other computer assisted checkout
systems in stores, pursuant to 9 V.S. A 5 2643 Weights and Measures, Commerce and Trade
(vermont.qov)
The purpose of this paper is to encourage Pricing Best Practices and share some frequent errors that
inspectors find.

Questions received and responses by VAAFM related to the SFY24 AgCWIP Request For Proposals.