Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 10/3/11

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a new directive to its inspectors that prohibits less-than-daily sanitation procedures in slaughter operations.

The directive, 5000.5 Revision 1, replaces a directive that was issued in 2009. Processing operations that do not slaughter may continue less-than-daily sanitation procedures if it is part of an approved food safety system. But, “FSIS has found that [less-than-daily] sanitation, in most circumstances, cannot ensure that slaughter operations maintain sanitary conditions.”

To download the directive in its entirety, click here.

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