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Article: Food safety: pinpointing critical control points for HACCP success. (hazard analysis critical control point system)(Cover Story)
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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HACCP is a safe bet - in both senses of the term. If you don't already have HACCP in your food plant, there's an excellent chance that you soon will. Federal regulations mandating the establishment of a hazard analysis critical control point system will kick in for most meat plants next January. Other processors are finding that they will have to follow suit, as high-profile contamination cases have raised awareness of food safety among retailers, foodservice customers and ultimate consumers.
But before you can start dealing with critical control points, you have to find them. Processors and industry observers say that pinpointing CCPs is one of the most crucial - ...