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Appendix B: Sanitation Performance Standards
Pages 294-302

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... What are the regulatory performance standards for grounds and pest control? Section 416.2 (a)
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... What do these performance standards mean? The establishment buildings must be sound and kept in good repair to prevent insanitary conditions or the adulteration of product.
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... What are the regulatory performance standards for ventilation? Section 416.2 (d)
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... What do the performance standards mean? It is the responsibility of the establishment to ensure that plumbing and sewage systems provide an adequate supply of potable water and remove waste and sewage from the establishment without adulterating product or creating insanitary conditions.
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... An establishment reusing ice to chill raw poultry might bag the ice to prevent it from contacting product. FSIS is making final performance standards that will provide for the reuse of water in numerous processing contexts, provided that the establishment takes actions necessary to ensure that product is not adulterated by the water and that sanitation is not compromised.
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... What are the regulatory performance standards for dressing rooms and lavatories?
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... What are the regulatory performance standards for sanitary operations? Section 416.4 states: "(a)
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... What are the regulatory performance standards for employee hygiene? Section 416.5 states: "(a)
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... Any person who has or appears to have an infectious disease, open lesion, including boils, sores, or infected wounds, or any other abnormal source of microbial contamination, must be excluded from any operations which could result in product adulteration and the creation of insanitary conditions until the condition is corrected." 2. What do the performance standards mean?
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Key Terms

  • regulatory performance
  • edible product
  • sanitation performance
  • prevent adulteration
  • sanitary conditions

  • extended cleanup
  • performance standard
  • water supply
  • product adulteration
  • lighting requirements

  • create insanitary
  • inedible product
  • program employees
  • sanitary condition
  • cleanup procedures

  • adulterate product
  • human waste
  • contained human
  • inspection program
  • exempt facilities

  • standards mean
  • waste water
  • national primary
  • pest control
  • water regulations

  • potable water
  • establishment buildings
  • pathogenic organisms
  • fsis inspection
  • sanitation sops


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