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This table is an example of a portion of a HACCP plan relating to the control of environmental chemical contaminants and pesticides in wild-caught flounder, using source control. It is provided for illustrative purposes only. Chemical contaminants may be only one of several significant hazards for this product.

Updated: 7/20/98
 

(1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  (5)  (6)  (7)  (8)  (9)  (10) 
Critical Control Point (CCP)  Significant Hazard  Critical Limits for each Preventive Measure  Monitoring  Corrective Action(s)  Records  Verification 
What  How  Frequency  Who 
Receiving  Environmental chemical contaminants and pesticides  No fish may be harvested from an area that is closed to fishing by foreign, federal, state, or local authorities 

No fish may be harvested from an area that is under a consumption advisory by a federal, state, or local regulatory authority based on a determination by the authority that fish harvested from the waters are reasonably likely to contain contaminants above the federal tolerances, action levels, or guidance levels.  Note: many consumption advisories are not based on such a determination.

Location of harvest area  Ask harvester  Each lot received  Receiving dock employee  Reject lot  Receiving record  Review  monitoring and corrective action records within one week of preparation

FDA. 1998. Environmental Chemical Contaminants & Pesticides (A Chemical Hazard). Ch. 9, In Fish and Fishery Products Hazards & Controls Guide: Second Edition. 93-111. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Seafood, Washington, DC.


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