Chapter 10 Powerpoint Flashcards
What preventive controls can be applied to eliminate hazard?
- allergen control:
- clean shared equipment
- make sure reworked ingredients are returned to original product
- make sure that allergens from preprocess and post process do not contaminate one another - Labelling
- make sure products are labelled properly
- make sure labels are placed on the same package
Allergen preventive control requirements:
- Preventing cross contact:
1) Equipment cleaning
2) rework management
3) manufacturing and engineering controls
4) employee training
5) scheduling
6) personell practices
Equipment cleaning procedures:
- Dedicate equipment for specific allergens (optional)
2. clean in between processes with different allergens
How to verify whether equipment is clean or not?
- observe to be visually clean-required by the FDA
- Aliza testing
- Highly sensitive allergen protein testing
- Allergen test kits-follow manufacturers instruction manual
How to schedule or run sequence of equipment:
- Minimize switch over from one allergen to another allergen
- Schedule proper sanitation process
- Choose right equipment to handle allergens
- avoid adding when you don’t need to (make allergen count as low as possible)
How to use manufacturing or engineering controls to control allergens?
- Build physical barriers to seperate processing lines
- Build seperate processing lines
- Do not reuse water or oil
Describe the allergic ingredient control process:
- create a master list listing all of the allergens used in the facility
- label allergens using common names
- label allergens using the appropriate icons
What to do when recieving incoming goods?
- Store different types of allergens, and non-allergens from one another
- color code all of the allergens
- store allergens in different transportation veichles
- seperate treanut, crustacean, and fish allergens by species
- Review the raw labels as they come in.
How to store allergens?
- Store them with like allergens
- do not store different allergens on top of one another
- have sign in sheets available at areas where allergens are stored
- store them in sealed intact containers
- have documented cleaning procedures available
What kind of products are stored in QA?
- Rework and hold products
- make sure that they are properly labelled.
What are the different ways of preventing allergen cross contact during processing?
- Weigh protein powders containing allergens separately
- Make sure ventilation lines above protein powders are controlled
- bags holding allergens should be covered
- containers previously containing allergens should be cleaned
- equipment should be cleaned
Personel practice to prevent cross contact
- outer clothing should not get into contact with allergens
2. employees handling allergens should not touch non allergens
Which act provides requirements for allergen control
the food allergen labelling and consumer protection act
the number one cause of food product recall:
allergen mislabellings
problems with may contain labeling
It doesn’t protect you from liability and makes it appear as if your facility is not doing a good job in preventing allergen cross contamination
