The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued FSIS Notice 01-19, “Extension of Delayed Implementation of Verification of Revised Appendix A and B.”
The purpose of the notice reads as follows: “This notice replaces FSIS Notice 17-18. This new notice informs inspection program personnel (IPP) that establishments that use FSIS Appendix A and B as scientific support for lethality and stabilization procedures may continue to use the 1999 or 2017 versions until further notice. This notice also provides instructions for Enforcement, Investigation, and Analysis Officers (EIAOs) when performing Food Safety Assessments (FSAs) in establishments using FSIS Appendix A and B as scientific support. In the next few months, FSIS will announce in the Federal Register, the availability of updated versions of the lethality (Appendix A) and stabilization (Appendix B) guidance, respond to comments on the 2017 versions of this guidance, and announce dates when FSIS will begin to verify that those establishments that choose to use the safe harbors provided in this guidance as scientific support for their validated HACCP systems are using the information in the 2019 versions of the guidance.”