§ 120.6. Sanitation standard operating procedures.

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(a)Sanitation controls. Each processor shall have and implement a sanitation standard operating procedure

(SSOP)that addresses sanitation conditions and practices before, during, and after processing. The SSOP shall address:

(1)Safety of the water that comes into contact with food or food contact surfaces or that is used in the manufacture of ice;

(2)Condition and cleanliness of food contact surfaces, including utensils, gloves, and outer garments;

(3)Prevention of cross contamination from insanitary objects to food, food packaging material, and other food contact surfaces, including utensils, gloves, and outer garments, and from raw product to processed product;

(4)Maintenance of hand washing, hand sanitizing, and toilet facilities;

(5)Protection of food, food packaging material, and food contact surfaces from adulteration with lubricants, fuel, pesticides, cleaning compounds, sanitizing agents, condensate, and other chemical, physical, and biological contaminants;

(6)Proper labeling, storage, and use of toxic compounds;

(7)Control of employee health conditions that could result in the microbiological contamination of food, food packaging materials, and food contact surfaces; and

(8)Exclusion of pests from the food plant.

(b)Monitoring. The processor shall monitor the conditions and practices during processing with sufficient frequency to ensure, at a minimum, conformance with those conditions and practices specified in part 110 of this chapter and in subpart B of part 117 of this chapter that are appropriate both to the plant and to the food being processed. Each processor shall correct, in a timely manner, those conditions and practices that are not met.

(c)Records. Each processor shall maintain SSOP records that, at a minimum, document the monitoring and corrections prescribed by paragraph

(b)of this section. These records are subject to the recordkeeping requirements of § 120.12.

(d)Relationship to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan. Sanitation standard operating procedure controls may be included in the HACCP plan required under § 120.8(b). However, to the extent that they are implemented in accordance with this section, they need not be included in the HACCP plan. [66 FR 6197, Jan. 19, 2001, as amended at 80 FR 56167, Sept. 17, 2015]