On March 19, 2010, FSIS issued a Draft Guidance: HACCP Systems Validation. This draft document outlines procedures plants can use to validate their HACCP systems. It is essentially a re-interpretation of the HACCP regulation published in 1996.
Since the inception of the HACCP regulation HACCP systems have been validated. Frequently, this validation has been accomplished by supporting decisions on selection of CCPs and Critical Limits with scientific references. Since inception, HACCP systems have been routinely reviewed by on-site inspection staff and during recent years have received extensive reviews through Food Safety Assessments. This currently provides significant oversight of a plant’s HACCP systems.