Has anyone here completed a recent PAACO poultry welfare course or similar? I’m lining up CE that improves humane handling and product safety — stunning verification, minimizing wing and breast bruising, and practical HACCP touchpoints like holding chillers at 34°F with PAA around 200 ppm — and I’d value options that include solid templates for FSIS-ready documentation.
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for those who prefer flexibility in their work environment. Agree, but most work still ends up on-site in places like Baltimore, so I keep a grab-and-go kit and a clear 2-hour window listed up front. I get fastest callbacks by applying within an hour and attaching a 30-sec video rekeying a Schlage, which I squeeze in before my butcher shift.
I’ve run into this too — one small tweak that paid off was writing the expected outcome before touching the settings.
I’ve used PAACO Poultry Auditor; add NCC audit checklist templates: National Chicken Council | Animal Welfare for Broiler Chickens — want my PAA log example, @OP?
I get better traction sending a two-line reply with my rate, hours, and one recent ‘residential and commercial’ win; adding a single before/after photo bumped callbacks… Small caveat: ‘apply promptly’ helps, but I don’t share code-cutting details until I verify ownership on a quick video call to dodge chargebacks.
Pair PAACO with Iowa State’s Meat & Poultry HACCP — solid, editable SSOP/HACCP templates and a chiller/PAA log that’s FSIS-ready: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/ffed/haccp/; I drop a one-page stunner verification sheet in the same packet so audits stay boring (in a good way). @vthompson67, mind sharing your PAA log if I DM my stunner sheet?