Code of Federal Regulations Title 9. Animals and Animal Products § 9.417.5 Records

(1) The written hazard analysis prescribed in § 417.2(a) of this part, including all supporting documentation;

(2) The written HACCP plan, including decisionmaking documents associated with the selection and development of CCP's and critical limits, and documents supporting both the monitoring and verification procedures selected and the frequency of those procedures.

(3) Records documenting the monitoring of CCP's and their critical limits, including the recording of actual times, temperatures, or other quantifiable values, as prescribed in the establishment's HACCP plan;  the calibration of process-monitoring instruments;  corrective actions, including all actions taken in response to a deviation;  verification procedures and results;  product code(s), product name or identity, or slaughter production lot. Each of these records shall include the date the record was made.

(1) Establishments shall retain all records required by paragraph (a)(3) of this section as follows:  for slaughter activities for at least one year;  for refrigerated product, for at least one year;  for frozen, preserved, or shelf-stable products, for at least two years.

(2) Off-site storage of records required by paragraph (a)(3) of this section is permitted after six months, if such records can be retrieved and provided, on-site, within 24 hours of an FSIS employee's request.