Canadian Quality Milk On-Farm Food Safety Program - Centre ...
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<strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Milk</strong><br />
HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINT<br />
(HACCP) APPROACH<br />
A Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Analysis (HACCP)-like approach is a<br />
systematic, science-based method of identifying and assessing food safety hazards in<br />
an operation and then developing steps to prevent, control and reduce those risks to<br />
acceptable levels.<br />
Advantages of a HACCP-based program are:<br />
• A consistent supply of safe milk and meat to<br />
processors and consumers.<br />
• Prevention of problems, which is cheaper than solving<br />
problems.<br />
• Reduced penalties and less raw and finished product<br />
wastage.<br />
• Increased industry and consumer confidence.<br />
• Better mechanism to respond to consumer demand for<br />
food safety.<br />
• Increased producer and processor milk and meat<br />
production efficiencies and improvements.<br />
• Better control over management = lower production<br />
costs = higher producer profits.<br />
• Standardization of daily routines.<br />
• Improved herd health.<br />
• Reduced environmental impact.<br />
• Increased producer gains from quality incentive payments (where applicable).<br />
Prevention<br />
$1<br />
Correction<br />
$10<br />
Failure<br />
$100<br />
Figure 1: Prevention Savings<br />
$1 spent on prevention will save<br />
$10 on product correction and<br />
$100 to deal with product failure.<br />
• Increased competitive edge over competitors (within milk and beverage industries).<br />
• <strong>Food</strong> safety assurance for export trade.<br />
HACCP refers to the systematic process of:<br />
• Identifying hazards to food safety.<br />
• Specifying Critical Control Points in the<br />
production process where control measures<br />
are essential.<br />
• Implementing and documenting Best<br />
Management Practices to prevent problems.<br />
• Setting critical limits to ensure each CCP is<br />
under control.<br />
• Setting-up monitoring procedures for each CCP.<br />
• Using troubleshooting procedures and corrective actions to eliminate or<br />
reduce food safety problems.<br />
• Setting-up verification procedures to prove that the control program is working.<br />
• Developing a record-keeping system to monitor the effectiveness of the HACCP<br />
system which uses Best Management Practices.<br />
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June 2010