Introduction to HACCPdepartment/deptdocs.nsf/ba...Introduction to HACCP Developed by Today we are going to discuss an internationally recognized food safety system, that we use to
Today we are going to discuss an internationally recognized food safety system, that we use to help us ensure that the food products we make are safe to eat. Has anyone heard of HACCP? (Let participants answer, finish by thanking them for their answers).�
Agenda
• Food safety• Responsibilities• HACCP• Prerequisite programs• HACCP plans • Control measures and CCPs
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Today, we will discuss the following (read bullet points). It should take about one hour and we will be doing some exercises, to help you learn and so I can get feedback on what you understand�
Food Safety
Prevention of hazards in foods
• Physical
• Biological
• Chemical
– Allergens
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Everyone deserves safe food. In previous sessions we have talked about the different types of hazards that can be found in food products. Can anyone give me an example of a physical hazards? (take answers , write on the flipchart). DO we have them in our facility ? How do we control them? , (expand on what they offer) Examples of biological hazards? Examples of chemical hazards? Allergens? �
Responsibility for food safety
• Producer/grower
• Manufacturer
• Distributor
• Transporter
• Retailer
• Consumer
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As you can see, we have specific responsibilities for the foods we manufacture. But we rely on our suppliers – producers and growers to give us safe product, and then we count on the people who distribute and transport the product, the stores and their personnel that sell our products and finally the consumer to handle, cook and serve our product to keep it safe. Can anyone give me an example of something a consumer needs to do to keep our products safe? (Here participants may say keeping milk refrigerated, not thawing meat on the counter, buying groceries at the end of a shopping trip, so the food doesn’t sit in a hot car etc.)�
Industry Responses
• Consumer education
• HACCP and HACCP based Food safety programs for all sectors
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The food industry provided information to help educate consumers. Such as point of sale information, information on labels, websites with recipes and storage tips. They have also adopted food safety programs that incorporate the principles of HACCP�
HACCP
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• WHAT hazards can enter the product?
• Where do these hazards occur?
• How can we control or eliminate these hazards?
HACCP - Answers 3 questions
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So what is HACCP? HACCP stands for Hazard Analyses Critical Control point and simply put answers three questions: read bullets. �
HACCP
• Science based
• Step wise process:
– Identifies hazards– Installs preventative measures to eliminate or
reduce hazards in foods
• Proactive rather than reactive
• Risk based
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It is a science based program that works through a step wise process to identify hazards, put in preventative measures to eliminate or reduce particular hazards in their food products. It is proactive not reactive and is based on risk.�
HACCP
• Does not rely on end product testing
– hazards not be evenly distributed and can be missed in sampling
– need to test large quantities– product would need to be destroyed or reworked
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It does not rely on product testing as most Quality control programs have done in the past. Final product testing does not identify or remove all hazards as the hazards may not be evenly distributed and can be missed in sampling. A large number of products would need to be tested in order to get statistically accurate results and most testing of food is destructive so you would have very large waste numbers.�
HACCP
• Starts from the beginning of the process
– Receiving of ingredients, packaging
• through process steps
• to final product and shipping
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HACCP looks at the entire process from the beginning; the receiving of ingredients, packaging through all process steps to final product and shipping. You document the potential hazards and look at control measures. We have discussed some of our control measures at the beginning of todays’s session. �
Pillsbury
“come as close to 100% assurance as possible that food products would not be contaminated with pathogens.”
“needed control over raw materials, environment and people as early in the system as possible….”
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Developed by Dr. Henry Bauman at Pillsbury in 1960’s as part of the space program. As you know it is hard to get medical attention to astronauts in space, so NASA asked Pillsbury to develop a program that could guarantee that the food the astronauts ate would be safe. So HACCP was based on the concept that Pillsbury wanted to come as close to 100% assurance as possible that food products would not be contaminated with pathogens. To do that, they determined that they needed to build safety in and needed control over raw materials, environment and people as early in the system as possible….” �
Components
• Pre-requiste program
• Hazard analysis
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In order to build safety in, there are two parts to a HACCP program: The prerequisite program and the actual HACCP plan. We will talk about each of these tow programs in detail. We have a HACCP team comprised of (add names here) that have spent time developing our program, so I won’t go into the details of how the programs are developed, but will give you highlights only.�
Prerequisites• Foundation to a HACCP program
• Includes Good Manufacturing Practices
• Addresses food safety at all stages from receiving to shipping
– Including indirect hazards
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The prerequisite program is the foundation to a HACCP program. Formerly these were know as Good Manufacturing Practices, which addresss food safety at all stages from receiving to shipping, including the possibility of indirect hazards. �
Prerequisite program
– Premises– Transportation and Storage– Equipment– Personnel/Training– Sanitation and Pest Control– Recall– Allergen Control– Supplier Quality Assurance
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Our program includes the following elements (Customize here) Premises Transportation and Storage Equipment Personnel/Training Sanitation and Pest Control Recall Allergen Control Supplier Quality Assurance �
Premises looks at all the various aspects of the physical structure of our facility. - Outside property and building, our neighboring companies don’t handle toxic compounds or other things that may impact our products, Design, construction & maintenance- the walls are sound, pests can get in through unprotected doors and windows Lighting – there is enough light for people to do their jobs, and that the lights themselves do not present a hazard Ventilation – there is sufficient air movement and odours, steam etc are removed Waste disposal- we control our garbage Inedible areas- garbage is separated from good food Employee & sanitary facilities – we have enough washrooms and they are equipped with hot water, soap, sanitizer and towels Water/Steam/Ice – water is potable. �
Transportation and Storage
• Food Carriers
• Temperature Controls
• Receiving and Storage
• Incoming ingredients and packaging
• Non-Food Chemicals
• Finished Product Storage
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Transportation and storage looks at how materials is stored in the facility and how products are transported to customers. What are some of the activities that you do in this area? They should come up with some of the following: Need to do visual inspections Clean packaging if necessary If packaging torn or broken, inspect to see if anything is damaged, If everything is okay, then fix add name and date, If not, inform supervisor Store foods at the proper temperatures. Discussed bacterial growth in hazard module�
Equipment
• Design and installation
• Maintenance and Calibration
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It is important that equipment is suitable for its intended use and is working properly. How do you make sure of that? all surfaces that touch the food (food contact surfaces) are non porous, etc Have a good preventative maintenance program Calibrate thermometers, scales, chemical dispensing units �
Personnel
• Trained for their job
• Understand food safety
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People like you and me are on of the most critical pieces in this program. We have discussed before how what we do at work impacts food safety. It is important that all employees are trained to do their job and understand the implications of their actions of food safety.�
Sanitation and Pest Control • Sanitation
– Equipment and Utensils– Floors– Locker rooms– Lunch rooms– Washrooms
• Pest control
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We have talked in other sessions about why cleaning and sanitation is important. All parts of the facility need to be cleaned on a regular basis. Pest control is also important as pests such as rodents, flies, birds can bring in hazards into our facility. we have good programs in place to keeps those pests out of our facility. But you need to do your part as well, by keeping doors closed, picking up garbage and cleaning as you go.�
Recall
• Product identification
• Locating product
• Returning product
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A recall is the process of identifying, locating and bringing back any food that contains hazards. How can we identify the particular date when a product was made? Participants should be able to say something about a lot code or production code or best before date. Fill in with your company practices. So if we get a complaint or know there is something is wrong with a product, we can identify when it was made and then check our records to see what ingredient and their lot codes if necessary were used, what maintenance was done on that day etc. We also have procedures to figure out what other products were affected and what customers received those products.�
Allergen control
• Identification of Allergens
• Control of allergens
– Special handling– Segregate– Special sanitation procedures– Rework– Proper labelling
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As we discussed in an earlier session, allergens are a special class of chemical hazards. What allergens do we have in our facility? Go through the list- peanuts, tree nuts, fish and seafood, wheat, eggs, dairy products, soy, sulfites, sesame seeds How do we control them? Special handling Segregate Special sanitation procedures Rework Proper labelling �
Supplier Quality Assurance
• Vendor approval process
• Product specifications
• Inspect incoming materials
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Suppliers are also an important part of the process as we rely on them to supply us with safe ingredients and packaging. We have a vendor (or supplier) apporval process where we make sure that they can give us the products that we need to meet our specification. We inspect incoming materials to make sure that they are what we ordered, they are not damaged and that they contain lot codes so we can trace them back if necessary.�
Now on to the HACCP plan ….
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The programs that we have just discussed are the foundation to our HACCP program. We have tried to eliminate as many hazards as we can. Now we can turn our attention to the HACCP plan itself.�
Sequence of 12 Steps
1. Assemble HACCP team
2. Describe product
3. Identity intended use
4. Construct process flow and plant schematic
5. On site verification of flow and schematic
6. List hazards associated with each process step
(principle #1)
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There is a logical sequence of 12 steps that we used to develop our HACCP plan Read Slide�
Sequence of 12 steps
7. Apply HACCP decision tree to determine CCP’s(Principle #2)
It is important to have people with different backgrounds on our HACCP team, as they have differing expertise. Our HACCP team includes the following people: (name them by job title, perhaps some of the participants are on the team, If so, ask them to tell the group a little about the team and what they have contibuted)�
Product Description
• Product Name(s)
• Important Product Characteristics
• How it is to be used
• Packaging
• Shelf Life
• Where it will be sold
• Labelling Instructions
• Special Distribution Control
• Specific Ingredients
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Briefly, we have examined all our products, assigned them to a group with similar characteristics, Some of the things that we looked at include: Product Name(s) Important Product Characteristics How it is to be used Packaging Shelf Life Where it will be sold Labelling Instructions Special Distribution Control the specific ingredients used �
Define the processing steps
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We then defined each of the processing steps from receiving, through storage and handling, preparation, packaging and labeling, storage of finished products and distribution to customers. (Add your own processing steps)�
Construct Plant Schematic
Your Establishment’s Plant Schematic Here
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We looked at the plant layout, and how people, ingredients, finished product move through the plant and checked to where potential cross contamination counld occur.�
Determine hazards
• Look at each input- ingredients
• Determine possible hazards
• How are they controlled?
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We then listed all the hazards (biological, chemical, allergens and physical) that could possibly enter our product through the ingredients and the process steps and determined if they were controlled and how) and what was not controlled. �
CCPs
• Critical control points
• Place where you can prevent, remove or reduce a hazard
• if there is not step in the process that can eliminate or reduce the hazards- use labelling, cooking instructions to inform how control can be achieved
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Using a step wise process, we then determined if we had an CCPs. CCPs are critical control points – places where we can prevent, remove or reduce a hazards, that is not already controlled by a previous step.�
Our CCPS
• Metal detector
– Metal is a hazard in our facility– Not fully controlled by any prerequisite
program– Metal detectors specifically designed identify
product containing metal– That product can be removed– No other step will remove the metal
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List your company’s CCPs here and discuss why they are CCPs, we have used the example of a metal detector We have one CCP in our facility. Does anyone know what it is? The metal detector is a CCP because metal as a hazard cannot be completely controlled by our prerequisite programs and processing steps. There is a possibility that metal can enter our products because we have metal in our facility ; in slicers blades, in screws etc that maintenance uses. The metal detector is specifically designed to identify product containing metal, so it can virtually eliminate metal in all our products�
CCPsWhat is your role?
• Monitor– Look, smell, measure
• Record• Corrective actions • Verify
– Monitor people doing activity– Take corrective actions when necessary– Complete records properly
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Customize here to add specifics on what the participants’ roles are in monitoring CCPs There are specific actions that need to be taken on a prescribed timeframe at all CPPs. It is important to measure, look or smell, following the procedures and record your results. The records are how the company can prove that the correct actions were taken . There are CCP logs that need to filled out, (provide examples, show them how they fill them out properly). If the test that you are doing does not pass, then what do you do? (explain clearly the corrective actions that need to be taken) All CPP records are verified by ________________. Verification comprises two steps (expand if necessary): Verifying that the person doing the activity is doing it correctly and filling out the records properly and that corrective actions are taken when necessary.�
Practical application
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You will now have 5-10 minutes to complete this short evaluation. Please indicate the type of hazard and one method of eliminating or controlling it. We will then review it as a group and you will mark your own. In the review, ask each person to give one example and go around the group until all are mentioned.�
On the job.....
• Watch for hazards and remove any that you find
• If you are involved in CCP monitoring:
– Perform your checks as required:• according to procedure• on time
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Summarize the learning concepts and ask for questions. Remember to thank them for their time. Tell them that these activities will be monitored.�
