RECORDS
Records
are extremely important and require only minutes to complete
regardless of the size of your facility. A complete set of
records and a sample of each shipment may also protect your
interests should a crisis involving a residue arise. For
example: You purchase a load of corn for use in the next
batch of feed to be produced. This load of feed is consumed
and the cattle shipped to slaughter. A short time later,
you receive a phone call from Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) at the packing plant informing you that high
levels of a pesticide have been detected in the tissue of
the cattle you submitted for slaughter.
In a
situation such as this, if you have documentation showing
where you purchased the feed, along with a sample, the feed
can then be tested for the particular pesticide found. If
the test results are positive for the suspect pesticide, you
may be able to defer the liability for the contaminated
carcasses back to the grower or supplier of the feedstuff.
State and federal law states that you cannot sell a
contaminated feedstuff, regardless of whether or not you
contaminated it. The liability may fall upon you unless
your can prove otherwise. Records and a sample of the feed
will assist you in doing this.
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