---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 121.140"
title: "21"
number: "121.140"
heading: "Food defense monitoring."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/121.140"
---

# §121.140. Food defense monitoring.


As appropriate to the nature of the mitigation strategy and its role in the facility's food defense system:

- (a) **Written procedures.** You must establish and implement written procedures, including the frequency with which they are to be performed, for food defense monitoring of the mitigation strategies.
- (b) **Food defense monitoring.** You must monitor the mitigation strategies with adequate frequency to provide assurances that they are consistently performed.
- (c) **Records—**
  - (1) **Requirement to document food defense monitoring.** You must document the monitoring of mitigation strategies in accordance with this section in records that are subject to verification in accordance with [§ 121.150(a)(1)](/cfr/21/121.150.md?p=a-1) and records review in accordance with [§ 121.150(a)(3)(i)](/cfr/21/121.150.md?p=a-3-i).
  - (2) **Exception records.** Records may be affirmative records demonstrating the mitigation strategy is functioning as intended. Exception records demonstrating the mitigation strategy is not functioning as intended may be adequate in some circumstances.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 331, 342, 350g, 350(i), 371, 374.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 34219, May 27, 2016, unless otherwise noted.