5. Product safety plan

Welcome to the product safety area – where all things HACCP live, covering Codex Alimentarius, the FSMA act and also the OPRP requirements for FSSC 22000. Hazard analysis principles for physical, microbial, allergenic, chemical and radiological hazards – all in one place!


Endorsed training

Our product safety plan training for risk-based zones is endorsed by Bridgette Clarke, who is an industry microbiology specialist: Read her review here

Articles

Why We Need More Than HACCP

HACCP alone won’t cut it anymore. Learn why food, packaging, and distribution businesses need a broader Product Safety Plan — and how Techni-K training makes it practical, not just paperwork.

Combine HACCP and HARPC Plans 10 years on

The importance of combining the HACCP principles with the FDAs HARPC requirements.

Risk assessment

In this article we look at the inputs and outputs of risk assessment and how to make it ‘robust’.

Validation and verification explained

What’s HACCP validation and verification.

Metal Detector

CCP – Metal detection

The purpose of the CCP metal detection requires that you understand how your detector works so in this issue we help you learn more about it.

high-risk, high-care or ambient high-care

Defining risk-based zones

The requirements around defining and documenting which risk-based zones (low risk, ambient high care, high care, high risk) your site uses.

Basic food microbiology

Basic food microbiology including pathogenic bacteria, viruses, yeasts and moulds

In this article we look at the 4 main types of microbiology and how they affect food.

Radiological hazards, a common non-conformance in Issue 8

In this article we look at how to manage this for compliance.

validate all your PRP's

Why you don’t need to validate all your PRP’s

You don’t need to validate all PRP’s in your HACCP for BRC. We resolve some of the misunderstandings for this topic.

HARPC explained

I get HACCP, but what is HARPC?

What is HARPC and how will it affect you as a BRC site?

What is the difference between HACCP and HARPC?

In this article we go through the requirements for both HACCP and HARPC – the similarities, the differences and how to comply with both.