Map product exposure and process flow
Identify where ready-to-eat product is exposed, where employees handle product, and where food-contact surfaces or packaging may become contaminated.
Evaluate Listeria and other environmental hazards
Determine whether environmental pathogens are known or reasonably foreseeable hazards based on product characteristics, process, facility, and post-lethality exposure.
Select appropriate sanitation and other controls
Determine whether sanitation preventive controls, prerequisite programs, or other controls are required. Establish scientifically supported procedures and verify implementation.
Establish environmental monitoring where appropriate
Define sampling locations, zones, frequency, target organisms, methods, and positive-result response. Use the program to evaluate environmental conditions and control effectiveness.
Prevent cross-contamination through hygiene and zoning
Assess personnel movement, handwashing, glove changes, footwear, equipment, tools, waste routes, and barriers between hygiene zones.
Investigate deviations and recurring findings
Document affected product assessment, root cause, corrective action, verification, and reassessment where new information or process changes warrant it.
Keep the control classification accurate
Use hazard analysis to determine whether a measure is a CCP, sanitation preventive control, prerequisite program, or another control category under the applicable framework.
How Consultare Inc. Group Can Help
Consultare can support HACCP gap assessments, hazard analysis and HACCP plan development or review, sanitation program assessment, environmental monitoring review, hygienic zoning, monitoring and verification procedures, and corrective action support. For covered facilities subject to Part 117, the preventive controls framework should also be assessed as applicable.
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