Supervisory Public Health Veterinarian (Relief)

• Supervised inspection personnel daily in various red meat and poultry slaughter facilities; trained new Consumer Safety Inspectors on sample collection, noncompliance records, weekly meeting agendas, and PHIS tasks.
• Held weekly meetings with plant management to discuss sanitary operations and food safety issues; prepared agendas and memoranda of interview; reviewed and rendered decisions on appeals; ensured compliance with the Animal Welfare Act.
• Assessed HACCP plans, SSOPs, and SPS procedures; conducted microbiological verification sampling; verified implementation of sanitation and pathogen reduction protocols.
• Took regulatory control actions and documented noncompliance in PHIS; performed investigative work under Frontline Supervisor supervision; evaluated food safety plans using federal regulations; analyzed Public Health Rate Alerts and guided inspection personnel responses.
• Inspected carcasses for disposition decisions; submitted tuberculosis suspects; sent pathology and residue samples to laboratories; diagnosed reportable diseases and coordinated with APHIS and CDFA veterinarians.
• Enforced agency civil rights policies; ensured training in ante- and postmortem inspections, SSOP, SPS, HACCP, Humane Handling, Zero Tolerance, and Beef Sanitary Dressing; assigned tasks and reviewed subordinate performance via EPMA.
• Collected and shipped samples for NARMS, residue sampling, and TB surveillance; scheduled sampling tasks in PHIS.
• Reviewed, certified, and signed export applications and certificates; scheduled and completed export tasks in PHIS; recorded certificate details.

Key accomplishments:

• Identified inadequate trimming of beef tongues as SRM and enforced corrective trimming.
• Documented humane handling noncompliance for ineffective stunning and enforced corrective measures.
• Confirmed icterus in a dairy cow carcass, facilitated lab confirmation, and contributed to a new second-opinion protocol.
• Enforced noncompliance on rail dust in cooler, leading to plant installing new chains.
• Managed multiple public health investigations and noncompliance records across red meat and poultry establishments.

• Gained familiarity with federal meat inspection procedures and regulations.
• Monitored processing operations in a federally inspected facility.