Address: 7 Dinev Ct, Monroe, NY 10950
Establishment No.: p31727
USDA Inspection Report: 30 Oct 2011
Code: 03J02
Violation: 417.5(a)(1)
Citation: On October 30, 2011, at approximately
10:59 hours, while performing a slaughter HACCP inspection procedure
in the kashering department, I observed [redacted] and [redacted]
managers of the evisceration department, measuring the concentration
of sodium hypochlorite present at the potable water intake of the
immersion chiller using a [redacted] titration kit. Young chicken
carcasses were present in the device at the time and the mechanism
that ejects poultry carcasses from the chilling system had been
disabled. These members of management determined that total chlorine
was present at this location at the following concentrations and
respective times: [redacted] parts per million (ppm), 10:59;
[redacted] ppm, 11:02; [redacted] ppm, 11:07; greater than
[redacted] ppm, 11:25; and [redacted] ppm, 11:29. Management was
able to return chlorine levels to within the lower and upper control
limits stated in the firm’s written prerequisite (PR) program at the
potable intake and in the red water returning from the system’s heat
exchanger at approximately 11:32 hours and young chicken carcasses
were permitted to exit for further processing. Returning to the
chiller’s potable water intake at approximately 11:39 hours, I
performed a titration test and discovered chlorine to be present at
no more than ten (10) ppm. I took regulatory control of the product
present therein by directing an employee to arrest the mechanism
that ejects carcasses from the chilling system and rejected the
chiller and retained its contents by affixing the Food Safety and
Inspection Service Form 6502-1 #B40157507 to its control panel. I
immediately alerted Mr. [redacted] of my findings verbally.
This constitutes a failure to comply with the United States Code of
Federal Regulations, Title 9, Chapter III, Animals and Animal
Products, Subchapter E, Regulatory Requirements under the Federal
Poultry Products Inspection Act, Part 417, Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems, Section 5(a)(1).
In a memorandum of interview (MOI) I documented on 05/17/2011, I
shared my concerns about the inconsistent implementation of this
prerequisite (PR) program involving chlorination of the immersion
chiller with management:
"On eight (8) occasions, the FSIS Inspector-in-Charge, [redacted]
discovered management’s failure to monitor and implement as designed
a chlorine-based PR program in the immersion chilling system during
operations within the stated ranges of [redacted]. ...During these
incidents chlorine was discovered to be entirely absent or
inadequate at the intake, or present at approximately three (3) and
eight (8) times the stated limits in the written plan. ...Inspector
[redacted] is of the opinion that this establishment is unable to
consistently meter within accepted limits and adequately monitor
chlorine...in a PR program that serves as supporting documentation
for a hazard analysis."
When a PR program repeatedly fails to be implemented as intended, as
I have observed on sixteen (16) separate occasions since December
2010, it no longer provides support for a decision made in the
written HACCP plan's hazard analysis.
This document serves as written notification that failure to comply
with regulatory requirements may result in additional regulatory
and/or administrative action(s).
Regulation:
417.5(a)(1) The establishment shall maintain the following records documenting the establishment’s HACCP plan: The written hazard analysis prescribed in § 417.2(a) of this part, including all supporting documentation
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