food safety management systems

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Food Safety Management Systems
Food safety management system:
 Group of practices and procedures
intended to prevent foodborne illness
 Actively controls risks and hazards
throughout the flow of food

3. Food Safety Management Systems
These are the foundation of a food safety management system:
Food safety training program
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Quality control and
assurance program
Supplier selection and
specification program
Personal hygiene program

4. Food Safety Management Systems
These are the foundation of a food safety management system:
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Standard operating
procedures (SOPs)
Pest control programFacility design and equipment
maintenance program
Cleaning and
sanitation program

5. Active Managerial Control
Focuses on controlling the five most common risk factors for
foodborne illness:
1. Purchasing food from unsafe sources
2. Failing to cook food adequately
3. Holding food at incorrect temperatures
4. Using contaminated equipment
5. Practicing poor personal hygiene
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6. Active Managerial Control
There are many ways to achieve active managerial control in
the operation:
 Training programs
 Manager supervision
 Incorporation of standard operating procedures (SOPs)
 HACCP
These are critical to the success of active managerial control:
 Monitoring critical activities in the operation
 Taking the necessary corrective action when required
 Verifying that the actions taken control the risks factors
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7. The FDA’s Public Health Interventions
The FDA provides recommendations for
controlling the common risk factors for
foodborne illness:
 Demonstration of knowledge
 Staff health controls
 Controlling hands as a vehicle of
contamination
 Time and temperature parameters for
controlling pathogens
 Consumer advisories
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8. HACCP
The HACCP approach:
 HACCP is based on identifying significant biological,
chemical, or physical hazards at specific points within
a product’s flow through an operation
 Once identified, hazards can be prevented, eliminated,
or reduced to safe levels
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9. HACCP
To be effective, a HACCP system must be
based on a written plan:
 It must be specific to each facility’s menu,
customers, equipment, processes, and operations
 A plan that works for one operation may not work
for another
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10. HACCP
The seven HACCP principles:
1. Conduct a hazard analysis
2. Determine critical control points (CCPs)
3. Establish critical limits
4. Establish monitoring procedures
5. Identify corrective actions
6. Verify that the system works
7. Establish procedures for record keeping and documentation
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11. HACCP
Principle 1: Conduct a hazard analysis
 Identify potential hazards in the food served by looking at how it
is processed
 Identify TCS food items and determine where hazards are likely to occur
for each one; look for biological, chemical, and physical contaminants
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12. HACCP
Principle 2: Determine critical control
points (CCPs)
 Find points in the process where identified
hazards can be prevented, eliminated, or
reduced to safe levels—these are the CCPs
 Depending on the process, there may be
more than one CCP
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13. HACCP
Principle 3: Establish critical limits
 For each CCP, establish minimum or
maximum limits
 These limits must be met to
o Prevent or eliminate the hazard
o Reduce it to a safe level
Critical
Limit
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14. HACCP
Principle 4: Establish monitoring procedures
 Determine the best way to check critical limits
o Make sure they are consistently met
 Identify who will monitor them and how often
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HACCP
Principle 5: Identify corrective actions
 Identify steps that must be taken when a
critical limit is not met
 Determine these steps in advance

16. HACCP
Principle 6: Verify that the system works
 Determine if the plan is working as intended
 Evaluate the plan on a regular basis using
o Monitoring charts
o Records
o Hazard analysis
 Determine if your plan prevents, reduces, or
eliminates identified hazards
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17. HACCP
Principle 7: Establish procedures for
record keeping and documentation
Keep records for these actions:
 Monitoring activities
 Corrective actions
 Validating equipment (checking for good
working condition)
 Working with suppliers (invoices,
specifications, etc.)
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18. HACCP
These specialized processing methods require a
variance and may require a HACCP plan:
 Smoking food as a method to preserve it (but not to
enhance flavor)
 Using food additives or components such as vinegar to
preserve or alter food so it no longer requires time and
temperature control for safety
 Curing food
 Custom-processing animals
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19. HACCP
These specialized processing methods require a
variance and may require a HACCP plan:
 Packaging food using ROP methods including
o MAP
o Vacuum-packed
o Sous vide
 Treating (e.g. pasteurizing) juice on-site and packaging it
for later sale
 Sprouting seeds or beans
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20. Crisis Management
To build a crisis-management program:
 Create a crisis-management team
 Prepare for different types of crises
 Create a written plan tailored to your
operation
 Test your plan
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21. Crisis Management
To prepare for a crisis:
 Create a crisis-management team
 Create an emergency-contact list
 Develop a crisis-communication plan
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22. Crisis Management
To prepare for a foodborne-illness
outbreak:
 Develop a food safety program
 Train staff on food safety policies and
procedures
 Create a foodborne illness incident
report form
o Get legal guidance when developing it
o Train staff to use it
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23. Crisis Management
The foodborne illness incident report
form should document the following:
 What and when the customer ate at the
operation
 When the customer first got sick, what the
symptoms where, and how long they were
experienced
 When and where the customer sought
medical attention
 What other food was eaten by the customer
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24. Crisis Management
When responding to a crisis:
 Work with the media
 Communicate directly with your key
audiences (customers, stockholders, the
community)
 Fix the problem and then communicate
what you have done
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25. Crisis Management
When responding to a foodborne-
illness outbreak:
 Take the complaint seriously and express
concern
 Complete an incident report form
 Contact your crisis-management team and
the local health department
 Follow your crisis-communication plan
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26.  Take the complaint seriously and
express concern
 Don’t admit responsibility
 Ask for general contact information
 Complete the foodborne-illness
incident report form
 A customer calls to
report a foodborne
illness
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Responding to a Foodborne-Illness Outbreak
If: Then:

27.  Contact the crisis-management
team
 Identify common food items to
determine the potential source of
the complaint
 Contact the regulatory authority to
assist with the investigation if an
outbreak is suspected
 There are similar
customer complaints of
foodborne illness
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Responding to a Foodborne-Illness Outbreak
If: Then:

28. Responding to a Foodborne-Illness Outbreak
If: Then:
 Set aside the suspected product
and identify it to prevent further sale
 Label the product with a “Do Not
Use” and “Do Not Discard” label
 Log information about the product
including a description, product
date, and lot number
 If possible, obtain samples of the
suspect food from the customer
 The suspected food is
still in the operation
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29. Responding to a Foodborne-Illness Outbreak
If: Then:
 Maintain a list of food handlers
scheduled at the time of the
suspected contamination
 Interview them about their health
status
 Exclude the suspected staff member
from the operation following
requirements
 The suspected
outbreak is caused by
a sick staff member
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30. Responding to a Foodborne-Illness Outbreak
If: Then:
 Cooperate with the regulatory
authority to resolve the crisis
 Provide appropriate documentation
including temperature logs, HACCP
documents, staff files, etc.
 The regulatory
authority confirms your
operation is the source
of the outbreak
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31. Crisis Management
To recover from a foodborne-Illness outbreak:
 Investigate to find the cause of the outbreak
 Work with the regulatory authority to resolve issues
 Throw out all suspected food
 Clean and sanitize all areas of the operation
 Establish new procedures or revise existing ones based on the
investigation results
 Develop a plan to reassure customers that the food served in your operation
is safe
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