Must have been operating under NPIS for at least one year, during which time it has been in compliance with all NPIS requirements;

Must be in salmonella performance standard category 1 or 2 for young chicken carcasses; 

Must have a demonstrated history of regulatory compliance -- more specifically, has not received a public health alert for the last 120 days, has not had an enforcement action as a result of a food safety assessment conducted in the last 120 days and has not been the subject of a public health related enforcement action in the last 120 days, and

Must be able to demonstrate that the new equipment, technologies or procedures that allow the establishment to operate at faster line speeds will maintain or improve food safety.

Provides details about the establishment’s hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) system, including how the establishment addresses the inhibition and reduction of salmonella; 

Demonstrates that the establishment has effective process control by submitting one year of microbial data, methodology for evaluating that microbial data (e.g., upper and lower control limits), correlation of that microbial data to the establishment’s sanitary dressing process control data, correlation of that microbial data to FSIS’s salmonella data and interventions to address seasonality;

Describes how existing or new equipment, technologies or procedures will allow for the operation at a faster line speed (e.g., descriptions or names of the equipment, line configuration and verification activities that will be used);

Provides support on how the increased line speed will not negatively affect FSIS employee safety or interfere with inspection procedures (e.g., information about safety protocols or line configuration);

Supports how modifications to its food safety system to operate at the faster line speed will maintain or improve food safety (e.g., a statement that explains how the new equipment will provide the same as or cleaner evisceration processes or how an improved line configuration will continue to prevent cross-contamination), and

Indicates the type of records that will be maintained in the new process, including the collection of information that will assist FSIS in performing appropriate rule-making analysis (e.g., laboratory results, weekly or monthly summary production reports and/or evaluations from inspection program personnel).