How does the Seafood HACCP Regulation affect food service distributors? How does the regulation affect food service providers, hospitals, restaurants, and supermarkets?
Food service distributors that store fish and fishery products meet the definition of “processing” contained in the regulation, and are, therefore, covered if they are engaged in interstate commerce. However, food service providers, including hospitals, restaurants, and supermarkets, are retail establishments, and are, therefore, exempt. A food service distributor must perform a hazard analysis and develop and implement a HACCP plan if the analysis identifies a hazard that is reasonably likely to occur. If a distributor stores only frozen or canned fish and does not otherwise engage in processing, it is not likely that a HACCP plan would be required. In either case, the distributor would still be required to comply with the sanitation provisions of the regulations.
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