BLOCK 1.Start BLOCK 2.Plant Develops Sanitation SOP PREAMBLE Once prepared, FSIS inspection personnel will proceed to All inspected establishments shall develop, implement, and maintain written Sanitation SoPs. The sanitation SOPs shall describe all BLOCK 2 if the task is evaluation of a Sanitation SOP procedures an establishment conducts daily to prevent direct ntamination or adulteration of product(s). FSis has clarified that Sanitation SOP's also shall specify the frequency with which ear BLOCK6 if the task is verification of a Sanitation SOP procedure in the Sanitation SOPs is to be conducted and identify the establishment employee(s)responsible for the implementation and maintenance of such procedure(s). While the employee responsible for implementation and maintenance of procedures in the Sanitation SOP's may be the employee who actually performs such activities, s/he instea may estabishment does not need to necessarily identify the employee (s )who will actualy perform the sanitation procedures. Also, an establishment's Sanitation SOPs may have more than one employee responsible for mentation and maintenance of sani example, one employee may be responsible for pre-operational ocedures and another may be responsible for operational procedures The rule provides such flexibility. Further, FSIS is clarifying in this final rule that establishments mu Sanitation SOPs, distinguishing them from sanitation activities to be FSIS in identifying which sanitation procedures are to be carried out ch day prior to start-up of operations siS is also requiring that Sanitation SOPs be signed and dated by the establishment, and that ment the Sanitation SoPs. This new langu grants establishments greater flexibility than did the proposed requirement that the establishment owner or operator be responsible specifies that Sanitation SOP's must be signed upon initiation and upon any modification. As in the proposal, the format and content of Sanitation SOPs are not