Regulations last checked for updates: Jan 18, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Dec 26, 2025
§ 117.155 - Verification.

(a) Verification activities. Verification activities must include, as appropriate to the nature of the preventive control and its role in the facility's food safety system:

(1) Validation in accordance with § 117.160.

(2) Verification that monitoring is being conducted as required by § 117.140 (and in accordance with § 117.145).

(3) Verification that appropriate decisions about corrective actions are being made as required by § 117.140 (and in accordance with § 117.150).

(4) Verification of implementation and effectiveness in accordance with § 117.165; and

(5) Reanalysis in accordance with § 117.170.

(b) Documentation. All verification activities conducted in accordance with this section must be documented in records.

source: 80 FR 56145, Sept. 17, 2015, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 117.155