Food inspection guidance: preventive control inspection

Common inspection guidance

The following guidance is common to all preventive control inspection (PCI) tasks as well as commodity inspection and sample collection inspection tasks

• Standard inspection process
• Biosecurity for inspection activities
• Sanitation and/or decontamination of mobile devices for routine operations
• Use of digital recording (camera, video, audio) devices during inspections

Assessing preventive controls

Food preventive control inspection

• Food preventive control and traceability inspection – System verification
• Food preventive control inspection – Implementation verification
• Inspection of evidence showing that control measures are effective
• Preventive controls inspection to verify compliance to conditions of a ministerial exemption

Commodity specific preventive control inspection

• Slaughter and welfare
  • Food animal slaughter PCI operational guidance
    • Appendix 1 – Poultry and Rabbit Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 2 – Red Meat Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 3 – Animal Welfare at Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 4 – Specified risk material at Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
  • Operational Guidance: Food Animal Slaughter - Preventive Control Inspection - Implementation Verification
    • Appendix 1 – Poultry and Rabbit Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 2 – Red Meat Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 3 – Animal Welfare at Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 4 – Specified Risk Material Slaughter and Meat Processing PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 5 - Guidance for weekly PCI case management