AIB International
Operational Methods and Personnel Practices
Outlines the proper handling, receiving, storage, and monitoring practices for raw materials and food products to ensure safe final products.
- Rejected shipment records
- Temperature check records
- Rejected shipment records
- Cleaning, inspection, and pest monitoring
- Packaging with special handling requirements procedure
- Corrective actions report
- Release for returned products records
- Raw material/finished product inspection
- Pallet inspection
- Rework records
- Seal verification
- Tanker wash tags
- Sampling procedures
- Processing aids approval
- Raw material transfer procedure
- Bulk material sifting records
- Foreign material control devices procedure
- Temperature monitoring
- Sanitizer concentration verification
- Captive shoe program
- Air/water filtration systems monitoring
- Distribution records
- Transportation breakdown procedures
- Shipping vehicle inspection
- Security seal or padlock records
- Hand sanitizer concentration monitoring
- High-risk clothing management
- Personnel practices program
- Personnel health cards
- Blood/bodily fluid policy or procedures
- Glass container breakage procedure
- Reprocessing or rejection of sealed or filled containers
Maintenance for Food Safety
Procedures to maintain buildings, equipment, and grounds in a way that provides a safe and sanitary food processing environment.
- Glass, brittle plastics, and ceramics program
- Preventive maintenance schedule
- Food-grade lubricants records
- Temporary repair procedures
- Work orders and repair requests
- Temperature monitoring activities
- Measuring device calibration
- Compressed air filter monitoring
- Purity/filter records
- Ammonia inspection records
Cleaning Practices
Standards focus on the cleaning and sanitization of equipment and facilities.
- Approved food contact cleaning compounds and sanitizers
- Chemical concentrations testing
- Equipment and tools color coding
- Forklifts/pallet jacks cleaning
- Daily cleaning task assignment
- Daily cleaning task schedule
- Product zone cleaning schedule
- Product zone task schedule
- Clean-in-place (CIP) systems
- Time/temperature/flow rates records
Integrated Pest Management
Highlights the management of pest activity, with strategies to identify, prevent, and eliminate conditions conducive to pests.
- IPM program
- In-house and outside contractors training records
- Facility annual assessment
- Corrective action reports
- Pest controller credentials and competencies
- Chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Pesticide labels
- Pesticide application records
- Pesticides inventory and control
- Trend analysis
- Pest-sighting logs
- Monitoring devices placement
- Site map of pest-monitoring devices
- Service records
- Insect light traps monitoring
- Pheromone monitoring device record
Adequacy of Prerequisite and Food Safety Programs
Evaluates the coordination of management, documentation, training, and monitoring systems across the facility to ensure safe products.
- Food safety policy
- Organizational chart
- Job descriptions
- Alternates/deputies assignments
- Training records
- Competency requirements
- Self-inspection reports
- Corrective action reports
- Customer complaint program
- Chemical control program
- Microbial control program
- Hold/release records
- Allergen control program
- Glass, brittle plastics, and ceramics program
- Cleaning program
- Master cleaning schedule
- Housekeeping schedule
- Preventive maintenance program
- Work order system
- Receiving program
- Regulatory affairs and inspections program
- FDA registration under the Bioterrorism Act
- Vulnerability assessment
- Food defense program
- Traceability program
- Finished product coding record
- Recall/withdrawal program
- Nonconforming product program
- Disposition records
- Approved supplier program
- Supplier performance monitoring
- Foreign supplier verification
- Import requirements record
- Specification program
- Letters of Guarantee or Certifications
- Processing record program
- Equipment failure and process deviation procedure
- HACCP program
- CCP (Critical Control Points) monitoring
- Process flow diagram
- Hazard analysis
- HACCP master plan
- Release procedures
- Structural repairs or modifications design standards
- Water quality program
- Water sample testing (potability)
- Approved chemicals