Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
Why organizations should go for HACCP:
- To ensure the whole processes and the systems associated with food business to produce safe food
- To control the system that identifies where hazards might occur in the food production process
- To reduce the risks of recalls and product withdrawals thus reducing costs associated with insurance and business liability protection
- To increase focus and ownership of food safety
- To prioritize and control potential hazards in food production by controlling major food risks, such as microbiological, chemical and physical contaminants
- Establish a maximum or minimum limit for temperature, time, pH, salt level, chlorine level or other processing characteristic that will control the hazards
- To establish critical limits for preventive measures associated with each critical control points.
- To ensure the monitoring of the processes at the critical control point and ensuring records to show that the desired critical limits have been met
- To ensure the effectiveness of preventing the hazards identified
- Increase customer and consumer confidence