Food Protection Pt. 4 Flashcards
Where are Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for food published?
Title 31 of CFR, Part 110
5 subparts of GMPs
-General provisions (personnel, personal hygiene, etc)
- Buildings/facilities
- Equipment
- Production and Process Controls
-Defect Action Levels (DCLs) - maximum allowed levels of various types of contamination (ie. mold, insects, rodent hairs, fly eggs, etc.)
HACCP
management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product
any action or activity that can be used to prevent, eliminate or reduce a significant hazard
control measure
a step at which control can be applied and is essential to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level
CCP
a maximum and/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 lvl the occurence of a food safety hazard
critical limit
the process of collecting and evaluating info on hazards associated with the food under consideration to decide which are significant and must be addressed in the HACCP plan
Hazard analysis
to conduct a planned sequence of observations or measurements to assess whether a CCP is under control and to produce an accurate record for future use in verification
monitor
procedures including GMPs that address operational conditions providing the foundation for the HACCP system
Prerequisite programs
activities other than monitoring that determine the validity of the HACCP plan and that the system is operating according to the plan
Verification
validation
the element of verification focused on collecting and evaluating scientific and technical info to determine if the HACCP plan when properly implemented, will effectively control the hazards
7 HACCP Principles
1: conduct a hazard analysis
2: determine the CCPs
3: establish critical limits
4: establish monitoring procedures
5: establish CAs
6: establish verification procedures
7: establish record-keeping and documentation procedures
5 preliminary tasks in the development of a HACCP Plan
1) Assemble a HACCP Team
2) Describe the food and its distribution
3) Describe the intended use and consumers of the food
4) Develop a flow diagram which describes the process
5) Verify the flow diagram
During hazard analysis, hazards are evaluated based on:
severity and frequency
T/F: each CCP will have one or more control measures to assure that the identified hazards are prevented, eliminated or reduced to acceptable levels
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