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Critical Control Point

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A critical control point (CCP) is a step in a food process where a control is essential to prevent a hazard, remove it or reduce it to a safe level. If the control fails at that step, no later step will make the food safe. Cooking is the commonest example.

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A prerequisite is a general hygiene measure that applies everywhere, such as cleaning, pest control and hand washing. A critical control point is one specific step, such as cooking, where a control must work every time because no later step will make the food safe.

The people who know the food and the process, led by someone trained in the HACCP principles. In a small business that is usually the owner or the head chef. A consultant can help, but the business must understand and run its own system.

The regulation says for an appropriate period and gives no number of months. Keep them long enough to cover the shelf life of the food and to show an inspector that the system has worked since the last visit. Many businesses keep at least twelve months.

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Critical Control Point

Each part of a HACCP system explained with the examples an inspector expects to see.

What makes a step a critical control point

A critical control point, or CCP, is a step at which a control can be applied and is essential to prevent a food safety hazard, remove it or reduce it to a safe level. The test is simple: if the control failed here, would unsafe food reach the customer because no later step would put it right?

Cooking raw chicken is a CCP, because nothing afterwards kills the bacteria. Washing hands is not: it matters everywhere and is managed as a prerequisite. Most caterers have between three and six CCPs. A plan with twenty has usually confused the two.

Typical critical control points

  • Cooking: core temperature of 75°C, or an equivalent time and temperature.
  • Chilled storage: food kept at 8°C or below by law, with 5°C as good practice.
  • Cooling: cooked food cooled quickly and refrigerated within the time limit.
  • Reheating: core temperature of at least 75°C.
  • Hot holding: food held at 63°C or above.
  • Delivery: chilled and frozen food accepted only within temperature.
  • Metal detection or sieving in manufacturing.

Which of these are CCPs in a particular business depends on its own hazard analysis. A sandwich bar that cooks nothing has no cooking CCP.

The seven principles

  1. Conduct a hazard analysis.
  2. Determine the critical control points.
  3. Establish critical limits.
  4. Establish monitoring procedures.
  5. Establish corrective actions.
  6. Establish verification procedures.
  7. Establish documentation and record keeping.

Five preparatory steps come first: assemble the team, describe the food, identify who will eat it, draw the flow diagram and confirm the diagram on site. Together they are known as the twelve steps of HACCP.

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Measurable limits

A critical limit is a number or a clear yes or no, never an opinion.

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What is not recorded cannot be shown to an inspector to have been done.

The accredited HACCP Course teaches the seven principles, the temperatures and the records in about an hour online, with a CPD certified certificate the moment you pass.

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