There is no minimum percentage of fish that requires a food to be subject to the provisions of the seafood HACCP regulation. A product is subject to the regulations, if "fish" is a characterizing ingredient. For example, fish is a characterizing ingredient in "fish stew", but is not a characterizing ingredient in Worcestershire sauce, which contains a minor fish ingredient such as anchovy paste.
- Seafood HACCP regulation applies to processors and importers selling fishery products for wholesale (i.e., sales to other businesses or distributors).
- Any products that are sold wholesale must be processed in accordance with the regulation, provided that the product is in interstate commerce. This is true even if the firm's primary business is retail.
Exemptions - the rule does not apply to:
- Harvesting or transporting fish or fishery products, without otherwise engaging in processing.
- Practices such as heading, eviscerating, or freezing intended solely to prepare a fish for holding onboard a harvest vessel.
- Retail establishment solely selling fishery products to the end consumer.
- Fish means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans, other forms of aquatic animal life (including, but not limited to, alligator, frog, aquatic turtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, sea urchin, and the roe of such animals) other than birds or mammals, and all mollusks, where such animal life is intended for human consumption.
- Fishery product means any human food product in which fish is a characterizing ingredient.
- Molluscan shellfish means any edible species of fresh or frozen oysters, clams, mussels, or scallops, or edible portions of such species, except when the product consists entirely of the shucked adductor muscle.
- Processor means any person engaged in commercial, custom, or institutional processing of fish or fishery products, either in the United States or in a foreign country. A processor includes any person engaged in the production of foods that are to be used in market or consumer tests.
- Processing means, with respect to fish or fishery products: handling, storing, preparing, heading, eviscerating, shucking, freezing, changing into different market forms, manufacturing, preserving, packing, labeling, dockside unloading, or holding.
All processors must conduct, or have conducted for them, a hazard analysis to determine whether any food safety hazards are reasonably likely to occur in their product. This hazard analysis must be conducted for each location, each process, and each type of product processed. If no food safety hazards are identified, then a HACCP plan is not required.
Yes, a HACCP-trained individual must perform the hazard analysis initially, at least annually, and whenever there is a change in the firm's operations that might affect the hazard analysis, even if the product does not need a HACCP plan. However, the trained individual does not need to be an employee of the processor.
Seafood HACCP training consists of 2 courses: Basic Segment 1 and Segment 2. In-person or online virtual courses are listed on the Seafood HACCP Alliance website under the Seafood HACCP Training Course Information.
No, the seafood HACCP regulation does not require processors to have written SSOPs. However, a written plan is strongly recommended because an SSOP would help the processor identify the tasks necessary to meet the sanitation monitoring requirement in 21 CFR 123.11. In contrast, a firm is required to maintain sanitation monitoring records (e.g., sanitation schedule or checklist), regardless of whether seafood or fishery products are exposed or fully packaged in the facility.
There is no minimum percentage of fish that requires a food to be subject to the provisions of the seafood HACCP regulation. A product is subject to the regulations, if "fish" is a characterizing ingredient. For example, fish is a characterizing ingredient in "fish stew", but is not a characterizing ingredient in Worcestershire sauce, which contains a minor fish ingredient such as anchovy paste.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of regulated pests, applicable laws relating to quarantine and other regulation of regulated pests, and the potential impact on the environment of restricted use pesticides used in suppression and eradication programs. They must demonstrate knowledge of factors influencing introduction, spread, and population dynamics of regulated pests.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of regulated pests, applicable laws relating to quarantine and other regulation of regulated pests, and the potential impact on the environment of restricted use pesticides used in suppression and eradication programs. They must demonstrate knowledge of factors influencing introduction, spread, and population dynamics of regulated pests.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of the pest problems and pest control practices associated with performing aerial application of restricted use pesticides, including all the following: Labeling, Application equipment, Application considerations, Minimizing drift, Performing aerial application.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of the pest problems and pest control practices associated with performing aerial application of restricted use pesticides, including all the following: Labeling, Application equipment, Application considerations, Minimizing drift, Performing aerial application.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of crops, grasslands, and non-crop agricultural lands and the specific pests of those areas on which they may be using restricted use pesticides. The importance of such competency is amplified by the extensive areas involved, the quantities of pesticides needed, and the ultimate use of many commodities as food and feed. The required knowledge includes pre-harvest intervals, restricted entry intervals, phytotoxicity, potential for environmental contamination such as soil and water problems, non-target injury, and other problems resulting from the use of restricted use pesticides in agricultural areas. The required knowledge also includes the potential for phytotoxicity due to a wide variety of plants to be protected, for drift, for persistence beyond the intended period of pest control, and for non-target exposures.
Applicators must demonstrate practical knowledge of crops, grasslands, and non-crop agricultural lands and the specific pests of those areas on which they may be using restricted use pesticides. The importance of such competency is amplified by the extensive areas involved, the quantities of pesticides needed, and the ultimate use of many commodities as food and feed. The required knowledge includes pre-harvest intervals, restricted entry intervals, phytotoxicity, potential for environmental contamination such as soil and water problems, non-target injury, and other problems resulting from the use of restricted use pesticides in agricultural areas. The required knowledge also includes the potential for phytotoxicity due to a wide variety of plants to be protected, for drift, for persistence beyond the intended period of pest control, and for non-target exposures.
