Sanitation Performance Standards (SPS) Flashcards
What regulations control sanitation performance standards?
9 CFR 416.1 - 416.6
What is the acronym and thought process for performing SPS?
- GAD
- Gather information
- Assessing the information
- Determining if the establishment complies with the regulations
What facilities must comply with SPS regulations?
- Federal and state inspected meat and poultry establishments
- Import/ Export facilities
- Identification warehouse
- Custom-exempt operation
What directive covers and instructs sanitation performance standards and guides the pre-op instruction for IPP personal?
- Directive 5000.1 Rev 5 –> verifies an establishment’s food safety system
What is the purpose of enforcing sanitation performance standards?
- To inspect conditions in and around the official premises of the establishment, review documents, and inspect the facility and equipment for overall sanitary conditions
What should be examined when performing the SPS task to verify requirements?
- Directly observe one or more areas of the establishment
- Select standards based on a history of noncompliance
How should an SPS task be approached by an IPP?
- Have a working knowledge of specific SPS regulations
- Ask questions specific to the regulations
- Directly observe areas relevant to the regulations
- Assess the establishment’s answers to those questions
What does regulation 416.1 cover?
- Sets overall requirements for SPS
- Establishments must ensure operations in and around the establishment do not lead to insanitary conditions that would contaminate/ adulterate product
- This regulation is cited for systematic failure to maintain sanitary conditions potentially leading to adulteration
What does insanitary mean?
- A state, condition, or occurrence which may lead to the contamination or adulteration of edible meat or poultry product when it is exposed, processed, handled, stored, or packaged
What does regulation 416.2(b)(1) cover?
- Grounds and pest control
- Establishment grounds must prevent conditions that could lead to insanitary conditions, product adulteration
- Plants need a pest management program
- Pesticides must be safe and effective for use and storage in plant and will not cause future insanitary conditions/ adulteration
What does regulation 416.2(b) cover?
- Construction
- 416.2(B)(1) - establishment buildings must be sound and in good constructions
- 416.2(b)(2) - walls, floors, and ceilings must be durably built and impervious to moisture
- 416.2(b)(3) - walls, floors, windows, etc. should be built to prevent vermin and pest
- 416.2(b)(4) - rooms where edible products are processed must be physically separated and distinct from where inedible surfaces/ containers
What does regulation 416.2(c) cover?
- Lighting must be of good and sufficient quality to ensure sanitary conditions are maintained
What does regulation 416.2(d) cover?
- Ventilation must be used to control odors, vapors, and condensation
What does regulation 416.2(e) cover?
- Plumbing must be installed and maintained
- 416.2(e)(1) - carry sufficient water
- 416.2(e)(2) - convey sewage and waste away from establishment
- 416.2(e)(3) - prevent adulteration of product, water supplies, equipment, and utensils
- 416.2(e)(4) - provide adequate floor drainage to prevent flooding
- 416.2(e)(5) - prevent back flow and cross connection between pipe systems dealing with wastewater
- 416.2(e)(6) - prevent back up of sewer gas
What is covered with regulation 416.2(f)
- Sewage disposal
- Sewage must drain in a separate system from other piping systems to prevent backup of sewage into areas where product is handled