# Presentation: 658833

## Risk-Based Inspection 		

**Dr. Barbara Masters**
**Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service**
**Philip Derfler**
**Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy, Program and Employee Development**

## Purpose of Inspection

- Traditional Approach
- Designed to find problems if they occur

- Risk-Based Approach
- Designed to find problems that occur
- Designed to anticipate problems, thereby minimizing risk

## Deployment of Resources

- Traditional
- Based on what needs to be done
- Inspecting carcasses
- Making inspection once per plant per shift

- Risk-Based
- Align resources also with level of risk:
- Hazards based on type of species and process
- Likelihood hazard will exist in plant
- Significance of effects
- Ongoing assessment	 of food safety system

## Role of Data

- 	Assess risk:
- Public health risk posed by different types of products
- Significance of risks
- Plant performance history
- Approximate volume of various types of products

## Work to Be Done	

- Traditional
- Perform assigned procedures
- Under HACCP, 70% food safety and 30% other procedures.

- Risk-Based
- Varies based on risk
- Basic procedures
- Others based on inspectional findings and decision criteria

## Role of Data

- 	Data will guide:
- How to appropriately assess performance
- Development of decision criteria

## Activities of Inspection Personnel

- Traditional
- Procedures designed  to find non-compliance

- Risk-Based
- Focused on where loss of control:
- Is more likely to occur
- Would have serious public health consequences
- Intensify inspection if plant is losing/has lost control

## Role of Data

- Identify plants where problems may be developing
- Develop and maintain performance standards

## Response to Inspection Findings

- Traditional
- Evidence of compliance or non-compliance has no effect on intensity of inspection.
- Evidence of              non-compliance could lead to enforcement action.

- Risk-Based
- Evidence of non-compliance could lead to enforcement action.
- Intensity of inspection based on findings:
- Good control = less intense inspection
- Losing control = intensified inspection

## Role of Data

- Data on results needs to be available to inspection personnel on a timely basis
- Develop tools to help in analysis of data

## Response to Emerging Problem

- Traditional
- Not designed to have inspectors make a judgment about risk of non-compliance

- Risk-Based
- Inspection personnel would have flexibility, data, responsibility and training to be able to focus on emerging problems

## Role of Data

- Enable inspection personnel and analysts to identify plant trends and potential emerging public health issues
- Help FSIS to identify parameters that will signal a trend

## Factoring in Food Defense

- Traditional
- Food defense procedures performed with specified frequency

- Risk-Based
- Food defense procedures performed at frequency appropriate for national security situation and security situation in establishment

## Role of Data

- Determine extent of plant’s attention to food defense matters
- Results of FSIS verification activities

## Attention to Product in Commerce

- Traditional
- Random visits to facilities that handle meat and poultry products to ensure conditions are sanitary

- Risk-Based
- Scheduled visits to facilities based on findings and other information

## Role of Data

- Assess risks that products are subject to in commerce
- Determine conditions and regulatory history of facilities that handle products

## Questions for the Committee

- What inspection criteria would be appropriate in designing and implementing RBIS?
- How would the success of RBIS be measured?
- Are there any other ideas or recommendations the Committee might offer FSIS in designing and implementing RBIS?

## Questions for the Committee

- What data would be appropriate in designing and implementing RBIS?
- How should the Agency obtain the data?
- Is the Committee aware of data the establishments or their customers use to identify emerging problems? How can FSIS access this data?
- If industry data is used, how does FSIS ensure data quality?