Chile passes USDA foreign equivalency audit
USDA’s Food Security and Inspection Carrier learned no deficiencies threatening public successfully being in a recent onsite equivalence verification audit of Chile.
Chile’s most up-to-date exports to the USA embody; raw intact crimson meat, lamb, mutton, pork, rooster, and turkey; along with raw non-intact rooster and turkey; and not ready-to-use and in every other case processed rooster.
The FSIS despatched an audit group to Chili from Jan. 13-28 this 365 days to make a decision whether or not Chile’s meals safety inspection system governing meat and poultry “remains an equivalent to that of the USA, with the power to export merchandise which can be safe, healthful, unadulterated, and appropriately labeled and packaged.”
The audit document modified into launched on July 2 to the Servicio Agrícola Ganadero (Agricultural and Livestock Carrier) in Santiago. Chili modified into last subjected to a USDA foreign equivalency audit in 2018.
Eighteen institutions are on the second eligible to export to the USA. The 2020 audit centered on 9 of these including two rooster, one rooster and turkey, one turkey, one pork, two crimson meat, one lamb, and one crimson meat and lamb slaughter and processing institutions. Audits furthermore embody regulatory locations of work and laboratories.
Foreign equivalence audits embody six parts. These embody:
(1) Executive Oversight (e.g., Group and Administration);
(2) Executive Statutory Authority and Food Security and Different User Protection Regulations (e.g., Inspection Gadget Operation, Product Standards, and Labeling, and Humane Handling);
(3) Executive Sanitation;
(4) Executive Hazard Diagnosis and Serious Management Level (HACCP) Gadget;
(5) Executive Chemical Residue Making an strive out Capabilities; and
(6) Executive Microbiological Making an strive out Capabilities.
The FSIS audit for 2020 did not name any deficiencies that represented a articulate threat to public successfully being. Audit findings talked about with Chilean officials embody:
- The central competent authority (CCA) doesn’t dangle a mechanism or scheme in dilemma that requires that livestock carcasses and parts subjected to routine chemical residue testing be precluded from export to the USA except receipt and affirmation of acceptable testing outcomes.
- Executive inspectors didn’t gaze the inner of the poultry carcasses actual thru the post- mortem inspection. The incomplete statement of the inner of the carcass is a repeat discovering from the 2018 audit.
- Executive inspectors didn’t test that the hazard analyses addressed chemical hazards linked with restricted substances (e.g., sodium phosphate and potassium phosphate).
- Executive inspectors didn’t test the HACCP plans complied with the CCA’s requirements for HACCP realizing tell material.
- Executive inspectors didn’t test the institutions complied with the CCA’s requirements for HACCP file-conserving.
An exit assembly modified into held on Jan. 28 in Santiago, Chile, with SAG. At this assembly, the FSIS auditors supplied the preliminary findings from the audit. An diagnosis of the findings within each ingredient didn’t name any deficiencies that represented a articulate threat to public successfully being . SAG committed to addressing the preliminary audit findings as supplied. FSIS will evaluate the adequacy of SAG’s documentation of proposed corrective actions and tainted future equivalence verification actions on the records offered.
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