FDA seeks OMB approval to keep juice HACCP recordkeeping requirements
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This notice asks for public comment on FDA’s plan to keep collecting HACCP records from fruit and vegetable juice processors and importers. The agency uses these records to check whether juice is being processed and imported safely under food safety rules. For businesses in the juice supply chain, the practical effect is continued paperwork: hazard analyses, monitoring logs, corrective actions, calibration records, validation records, and written import procedures. FDA says these records must be kept and shown during inspections, and the comment deadline is June 1, 2026.
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Key Changes
- FDA is extending an existing paperwork collection for juice HACCP records under OMB control number 0910-0466.
- The notice covers recordkeeping for hazard analyses, monitoring, corrective actions, calibration, validation, and import procedures.
- FDA says there are no new capital or operating costs and no change to its burden estimate.
Obligations
What this law requires
Fruit and vegetable juice processors must establish, implement, and maintain a written HACCP system, including a HACCP plan, to control food hazards in juice processing.
Processors must keep written hazard analyses that identify food hazards likely to occur in the juice product/process.
Processors must maintain written monitoring and correction records for sanitation standard operating procedures.
Processors must document monitoring of critical control points and any other measurements required by the HACCP plan.
Processors must document all corrective actions taken when a critical limit deviation occurs.