RI Shellfish Management Plan Seminar Series

You Are What You Eat: Health, Food Safety, and New Sanitation Requirements for Rhode Island Shellfish

April 24, 2013

Presented By: John Mullen, Rhode Island Department of Health

Rhode Island Shellfish Dealers

Atlantic Capes Fisheries

Walrus and Carpenter Oysters

HACCP Requirements

• HACCP: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point • A systematic, science-based approach used in food

production as a means to assure food safety. • Every dealer shall have and implement a written

HACCP plan.

• Built upon the seven principles identified by the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (1992).

Critical Control Points

• Critical Control Points are designed to control food safety hazards

• Receiving • Licensed harvester • Approved area • Tag • Certifies dealer • Tagged • Under temperature control

Storage - Temperature control

Certification Requirements

• No person shall act as a dealer prior to obtaining certification. • Any person who wants to be a dealer shall:

• Make application to the Authority for certification; • Have and implement a HACCP Plan, and have a program of sanitation monitoring and

record keeping in compliance with 21 CFR 123 as it appears in the Federal Register of December 18, 1995, except for the requirement for harvester identification on a dealer's tag.

• Obtain Authority approved training every two years. The training shall include required processing, handling, and transportation practices as determined by the Authority. A dealer shall be allowed ninety (90) days following initial licensing to obtain the required education.

A dealer shall receive proof of completion of the required training. Proof of training obtained by the dealer within the past two years shall be presented to the

Authority prior to certification, recertification, or licensing. At a minimum, one individual involved in the shellfish operations shall obtain the required

training. The dealer shall maintain the record of the completed training. Each dealer shall have a business address at which inspections of facilities, activities, or

equipment can be conducted.

NOTE: These provisions take effect January 1, 2014.

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