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Washington Beef, LLC
Address: 201 Elmwood Road, Toppenish, WA, 98948
Establishment No.: 00235 M or m235
USDA Inspection Report: 13 January 2011
Code: 03C02
Violation: 417.5(b)
Citation:
On Thursday January 13, 2011 at approximately 1130 hours while completing an O3CO2 procedure from January 11, 2011 I observed the following: On October 26, 2010 samples were taken from all the bins of 50/50 trim produced that day. On October 27, 2010 six (6) of the bins from October 26, 2010 were identified as being presumptive positive. The plant's CCP 2B is in place to provide the actions taken by the plant to keep the presumptive positive product under control. CCP 2B states The monitoring of this process is by Quality Assurance Personnel. The CCP states in part each positive lot will have a . The documentation of the monitoring and verification of this process is recorded on the . On that document under " the document states " There is also signature lines for monitoring, direct observation verification, record review verification and the pre- ship review. While reviewing the documents associated with the reworking of this product many of the steps had initials of the QA personnel involved ( ). The showed the product was correctly reworked. The findings indicate the monitoring, direct observation and the verification was completed but no signatures , initials or "OK's"were recorded on the which is the record associated with the completing of the CCP 2B. I informed of the record keeping non-compliance. Miss reviewed documents with me to assure all aspects of the rework were performed to assure food safety and initiated a corrective action log. I informed of this non compliance verbally as stated previously and with this document. Due to steps taken by plant personnel no product injurious to the public health was allowed to enter into commerce. There have been no NR's written in the previous 90 days with a similar root cause.
Regulation:
417.5(b) Each entry on a record maintained under the HACCP plan shall be made at the time the specific event occurs and include the date and time recorded, and shall be signed or initialed by the establishment employee making the entry.
Next Report: USDA Inspection Report: 24 January 2011
Previous Report: USDA Inspection Report: 21 December 2010
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