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The 7 Principles of HACCP

Hazard analysis, critical control points, critical limits, monitoring, corrective action, verification and records: each principle explained with a kitchen example.

The seven principles of HACCP are the logic every HACCP plan in the world follows, from a food truck in Galway to a multinational dairy. They come from the Codex Alimentarius and are the principles Regulation 852/2004 refers to. Applied in order, they turn a vague intention to keep food safe into a system that can be checked, taught and proven.

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Conduct a hazard analysis, determine the critical control points, establish critical limits, establish monitoring procedures, establish corrective actions, establish verification procedures and establish documentation and record keeping.

Cooking: heating food to a core temperature of at least 75 degrees Celsius destroys the pathogens that survive earlier steps. Chilling, hot holding and receipt of goods are other common CCPs.

A control point is any step where a hazard can be controlled. A critical control point is a step where control is essential because no later step will eliminate or reduce the hazard.

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In practice, the people certifying with us are chefs and cooks, kitchen porters, waiters and baristas, deli and butcher counter staff, supermarket and convenience workers, food truck operators, market traders and caterers in schools, hospitals and care homes.

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The 7 Principles of HACCP

Hazard analysis, critical control points, critical limits, monitoring, corrective action, verification and records: each principle explained with a kitchen example.

Principle 1: conduct a hazard analysis

List every step in the process and identify the hazards that could reasonably occur at each: biological (Salmonella in raw chicken, Listeria in chilled ready to eat food), chemical (cleaning agents, allergens), physical (glass, metal, bone, plastic). Decide which are significant and what controls prevent them.

Principle 2: determine the critical control points

A critical control point, CCP, is a step at which control is essential and can be applied to prevent, eliminate or reduce a hazard to an acceptable level. Cooking, chilling, hot holding and receipt of chilled deliveries are the usual CCPs in catering. Not every step is a CCP; a decision tree helps decide.

Principle 3: establish critical limits

Each CCP gets a measurable limit separating safe from unsafe: cook to a core temperature of at least 75 degrees Celsius, chill to 5 degrees or below, hold hot food at 63 degrees or above, reject chilled deliveries above 5 degrees, cool cooked food to 5 degrees within a set time.

Principle 4: establish monitoring procedures

Decide what is checked, how, how often and by whom: probe the core temperature of each batch, read the fridge display at opening and closing, check delivery temperatures at the door. Monitoring must detect a loss of control in time to act.

Principle 5: establish corrective actions

Decide in advance what happens when a critical limit is missed: continue cooking until 75 degrees is reached, discard food held above 8 degrees for more than the permitted time, reject the delivery, call the engineer, record the action. Nobody should have to improvise at the moment of failure.

Principle 6: establish verification procedures

Confirm the system works: calibrate probe thermometers, review records weekly, audit the plan, check that monitoring is being done as written, review after any complaint or incident and at least annually.

Principle 7: establish documentation and record keeping

Keep the HACCP plan itself and the records that prove it operates: temperature logs, delivery checks, cleaning schedules, training records, corrective action records. This is what the Environmental Health Officer reads first.

Principles 1 and 2

Find the hazards, identify the points where control is essential.

Principles 3 to 5

Set limits, monitor them, act when they are missed.

Principles 6 and 7

Verify the system works and keep the records that prove it.

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