Healthy USDA Relations

HACCP

Healthy USDA Relations

A good working relationship with USDA inspectors often helps make food safety concerns easier to manage and resolve.

HACCP Plan Basics

HACCP

HACCP Plan Basics

Follow this Food Safety Road Map for all the components you need for hazard analysis, including a link to creating your own HACCP plan.

Record Review Checklist

HACCP

Record Review Checklist

Use this one-page reminder to help you keep track of regulation citations and required HACCP action steps and sign-off requirements.

How to Appeal an NR

HACCP

How to Appeal an NR

If you’re ever issued an NR you feel is inaccurate or unjustified, don’t panic, investigate.

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Memo Outline

HACCP

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Memo Outline

This outline provides some detail about what to include when writing your own GMP guidelines.

Updated HACCP Guidance

HACCP

Updated HACCP Guidance

Stay updated on the latest HACCP guidelines to keep your customers safe.

Foreign Material Control & Prevention

HACCP

Foreign Material Control & Prevention

This comprehensive manual includes an explanation of a foreign matter challenge as well as thorough detail about prevention, detection and response.

How to Appeal a Non-Compliance Report

HACCP

How to Appeal a Non-Compliance Report

Receive a Non-Compliance Report recently? It needn’t be scary or intimidating if you follow some good advice.

Safety for Small Plants

Food Safety

Safety for Small Plants

This USDA-FSIS website portal helps smaller meat plants produce flexible, more efficient and HACCP compliant food safety protocol.

How to Become a USDA Federally Inspected Facility

Food Safety

How to Become a USDA Federally Inspected Facility

In this interview with Dr. Lynn Delmore, a Meat Scientist and Food Safety Consultant, you’ll get first-hand advice about obtaining and maintaining a USDA certification.

Validating Your HACCP Plan

Food Safety

Validating Your HACCP Plan

This website brings together some of the scientific support you might need to validate your HACCP practices.

Microbiological Testing

Food Safety

Microbiological Testing

Reducing pathogens requires a farm-to-table approach in which everyone has a role. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is the cornerstone of this approach.