What Is HACCP?
What Is HACCP?
What Is HACCP?
HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is a globally recognized food safety management
standard that requires businesses to apply guidelines, procedures, and principles to ensure food safety
from raw material manufacturing right up to consumption.
Plans determine the food safety hazards and identify the preventive measures the plan can apply to
control these hazards. A food safety hazard is any biological, chemical, or physical property that may
cause a food to be unsafe for human consumption
A critical control point (CCP) is a point, step, or procedure in a food manufacturing process at which
control can be applied and, as a result, a food safety hazard can be prevented, eliminated, or reduced to
an acceptable level. For example, one possible hazard at a restaurant is food-borne illness from
undercooked pork.
3.Establish Critical Limits
A critical limit is a maximum or minimum value to which a biological, chemical or physical parameter
must be controlled at a CCP to prevent, eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the occurrence of a
food safety hazard. Examples such as temperature, time, pH, water activity or available chlorine.
4. Monitor Critical Control Points - means that companies should establish appropriate testing times and
methods to ensure food safety as well as that companies assign responsibility for monitoring critical
points to ensure safe products to specific individuals as well as the keeping of written records to verify
critical limits are not exceeded.
5.Establish Corrective Actions- are actions to be taken when monitoring indicates a deviation from an
established critical limit. Corrective actions are intended to ensure that no product injurious to health or
otherwise adulterated as a result of the deviation enters commerce.
7. Establish Verification Procedures- The HACCP regulation requires that all plants maintain certain
documents, including its hazard analysis and written HACCP plan, and records documenting the
monitoring of critical control points, critical limits, verification activities, and the handling of processing
deviations.