HACCP Certification in Chennai

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What is HACCP certification?

A HACCP certification is a document given to food processors and manufacturers as recognition that its team has developed a comprehensive and complete HACCP plan and has implemented it effectively. As a food safety management system, your HACCP plan must have a complete set of documents and procedures on how to identify and conduct an analysis of hazards, limit, control, and monitor any potential hazard in your food chain.

Your HACCP plan must be proven to be based on a scientific approach and properly identify any food safety hazard for all food products in your manufacturing company. After building your HACCP food safety programs, your company is eligible to request a food safety audit to verify the effectiveness of your plan. Once approved, a HACCP certification is provided to you. 

A HACCP certification can be proof that your business is globally competitive in terms of food safety. It also gives your customers the idea that your food safety management system is excellent. The certification process is a recognition system for a business's commitment to food safety.

How to obtain HACCP certification?

In order to obtain HACCP certification, your business will have to undergo a review by a qualified and adequate food safety auditor. The audit usually takes a few days depending on the size of your business, and your HACCP will be reviewed during this time.

A part of the evaluation is dedicated to ensuring that your HACCP plan is complete and that all food workers related to food safety understand its importance and how to apply it. Additionally, preparations before a certification audit must be done to ensure that all documents are complete.

The best way to ensure your HACCP certification grant is to complete your HACCP plan as much as you can and test and apply its effectiveness. It will not matter if your HACCP plan is complete if it is not fit for your food operation and you have not yet applied it. A part of the evaluation criteria involves your records of timely response to keep food safety as your priority. Reports of food safety issues because of non-compliance to food laws will cause you more time for questioning during a HACCP audit.

The HACCP certification audit aims to review the 7 main principles of a HACCP plan. Your food business is expected to have established and shown stability in doing the following principles:

Hazard identification and analysis of biological, chemical, or physical health hazards in all of the processing steps in each product.

Identification of any critical control point in your manufacturing process.

For each CCP, there should be a set of established critical limits, the maximum and minimum parameter values determining what is safe for your food (pH values, temperature, chemical levels).

Monitoring your CCPs. Determining how you will test your foods to prove they are safe for transportation, preparation, and sale. This principle also includes documents such as monitoring procedures and forms to ensure that every result in each process is recorded and properly controlled. It also includes comprehensive verification activities if the equipment used to test the critical limits is properly calibrated.

Corrective actions must be established. A set of procedures must be ready in cases of non-compliance to ensure that the control of food safety and food quality are maintained in addition to keeping hazards at an acceptable level. Included in this principle is the proper orientation and awareness for food workers regarding correction procedures.