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Principle 7: Establish procedures for verifying the HACCP system is working as intended.
• Validation ensures that the plans do what they were designed to do; that is, they are
successful in ensuring the production of safe product. Plants will be required to validate their
own HACCP plans. FSIS will not approve HACCP plans in advance, but will review them for
conformance with the final rule.
• Verification ensures the HACCP plan is adequate, that is, working as intended.
Verification procedures may include such activities as review of HACCP plans, CCP records,
critical limits and microbial sampling and analysis. FSIS is requiring that the HACCP plan
include verification tasks to be performed by plant personnel. Verification tasks would also be
performed by FSIS inspectors. Both FSIS and industry will undertake microbial testing as one
of several verification activities. the occurrence of the identified food safety hazard.