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Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program - Manual of Operations

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28/01/2005
FOREWORD
BULLETINS
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITIONS
Chapter 1 ADMINISTRATION
1.1 Administrative Responsibilities and Procedures
1.2 Legislation
1.3 Certification procedures
Chapter 2 GROWING AREA SURVEY AND CLASSIFICATION
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Shellfish Growing Water Surveys
2.2.1 Comprehensive Survey
2.2.2 Annual Review Survey
2.2.3 Re-Evaluation Survey
2.2.4 Documentation
2.3 Classification of Growing Areas
2.3.1 Approved
2.3.2 Conditionally Approved
2.3.3 Closed
2.3.4 Prohibited
2.3.5 Process for Classification - Role of Regional Interdepartmental Shellfish Sub-committees
2.3.6 Documenting the Classification
Chapter 3 CONTROL OF HARVESTING
3.1 Patrol Policy Document
3.2 Licensing of Harvesters
3.3 Identification of Closed Areas
3.4 Prevention of Harvesting from Closed Areas
Chapter 4 HARVESTING AND HANDLING SHELLSTOCK
4.1 Vessels and Conveyances
4.2 Washing of Shellstock
4.3 Disposal of Human Wastes
4.4 Shellstock Identification
4.5 Temperature Control of Shellfish from Harvest Areas to Registered Facilities
Chapter 5 WET STORAGE
5.1 Source of Shellfish
5.2 Storage Facilities
5.3 Labelling Requirements
Chapter 6 SHUCKING AND PACKING SHELLFISH
6.1 Facility Requirements
6.2 Heat Shock
6.2.1 Washing of Shellstock
6.2.2 Heat Shock Process
6.2.3 Cooling of Heat Shocked Shellstock
6.2.4 Cooling of Shucked Shellfish
6.2.5 Changing of Heat Shock Tank Water
6.3 Labelling of Shucked Shellfish
6.4 Commingling Policy
6.5 Records
Chapter 7 SHELLSTOCK SHIPPING AND LABELLING
7.1 Source Identification
7.2 Shellstock Storage, Shipping and Record Keeping
7.3 Labelling Shellstock
7.4 Commingling Policy
Chapter 8 REPACKING AND RESHIPPING
8.1 Repacking
8.2 Reshipping
8.3 Repacking and Relabelling Shellstock
Chapter 9 (RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE)
Chapter 10 POLICY AND PROCEDURES FOR CONTROLLED RELAYING AND DEPURATION
10.1 Procedures for Approval of a Depuration Facility or Relay Operation
10.2 Depuration Facility Protocol
10.2.1 Harveting Areas
10.2.2 Processing Water and Facility Requirements
10.2.3 Shellstock Separation Requirements
10.2.4 Laboratory
10.2.5 Operational Controls
10.2.6 Records
10.2.7 Process Verification
10.2.8 Routine QMP Monitoring (Post Verification) - Requirements
10.2.9 Process Deviations
10.2.10 Product Release
10.3 Short Term Container Relay Protocols
10.3.1 Harvest Areas
10.3.2 Storage and Container Requirements
10.3.3 Shellstock Separation Requirements
10.3.4 Laboratory
10.3.5 Operational Controls
10.3.6 Records
10.3.7 Process Verification for Short Term Container Relaying
10.3.8 Routine Container Relay Monitoring
10.3.9 Process Deviations
10.3.10 Release
10.4 Natural and Extended Container Relay Protocols
10.4.1 Harvest Areas
10.4.2 Storage Facilities
10.4.3 Shellstock Separation Requirements
10.4.4 Laboratory
10.4.5 Operational Controls
10.4.6 Records
10.4.7 Routine Natural/Extended Container Relay Monitoring
10.4.8 Process Deviations
10.4.9 Release
ANNEX 10A Records
ANNEX 10B Selected Examples of Tags and Record Forms
ANNEX 10C Special Licence
ANNEX 10D Memorandum of Agreement
Chapter 11 CONTROL OF MARINE BIOTOXINS
11.1 Program Responsibilities and Reporting
11.2 Sampling of Harvesting Areas
11.3 Sampling from Processing Plants
11.4 Sampling Priority
11.5 Standards Applied and Procedures for Controlling Harvesting
ANNEX 11A Consumer Complaint Record - Shellfish Poisoning
ANNEX 11B Molluscs Harvesting Licence
Chapter 12 SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE
12.1 Aquaculture Sites
12.2 Polyculture
12.3 Other Aquaculture Activities
ANNEX 12A Criteria for Shellfish Aquaculture Leases in Bacteriologically Contaminated Areas
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I LABORATORY PROCEDURES
Annex IA CSSP Microbiology Laboratory Evaluation Checklist
APPENDIX II ACTION LEVELS, TOLERANCES AND OTHER VALUES FOR
POISONOUS OR DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCES IN SEAFOODS
APPENDIX III ENFORCEMENT POLICY FOR MOLLUSCS EXCEEDING
ESTABLISHED BACTERIOLOGICAL LEVELS
APPENDIX IV CANADA - UNITED STATES BILATERAL AGREEMENT
ON SHELLFISH
APPENDIX V CFIA/ENVIRONMENT CANADA/FISHERIES AND OCEANS
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
APPENDIX VI REFERENCES
Section 1 General References
Section 2 Growing-Area Surveys and Classification References
Section 3 Depuration References
APPENDIX VII MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED FISHERIES REGULATIONS - Operational Procedures
APPENDIX VIII PROTOCOL FOR EMERGENCY CLOSURE OF ANY SHELLFISH GROWING AREA
APPENDIX IX PROTOCOL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF A CONDITIONALLY APPROVED AREA
APPENDIX X PROTOCOL FOR CSSP MANUAL AMENDMENTS
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