Monitoring Critical Control Points in Foodservice

Monitoring Critical Control Points in Foodservice

Learn what to look for and how to enhance loss prevention, protect your brand, and help ensure you’re serving safe food.

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Free Guide to Food Safety Temperature Management

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles are an internationally recognized method for identifying, evaluating and controlling food safety risks across all dimensions of foodservice. Build your food safety system on a foundation of proven HACCP principles and critical control points to help ensure the food you serve to your customers is safe and hazard-free.

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    The Seven Principles of HACCP

    These seven key principles reduce safety hazards across all dimensions of foodservice. When you follow them, you’re not just helping to assure regulatory compliance; you’re also enhancing the quality of your product and protecting the integrity of your brand. 

    1. Conduct a hazard analysis
    2. Determine the critical control points (CCPs)
    3. Establish critical limits
    4. Establish monitoring procedures
    5. Establish corrective actions
    6. Establish verification procedures
    7. Establish record keeping and documentation procedures
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    Critical Control Points for Food Safety (CCPs)

    Throughout your operations, food passes through dangerous temperature zones or CCPs. Closely monitor these areas for safety.

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    Receiving

    Verify that food has arrived undamaged and within the recommended temperature range before accepting a shipment.

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    Storing

    Separate food to prevent cross-contamination and keep it refrigerated, frozen or in dry storage until time for preparation.

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    Preparation

    Manage time when thawing and maintain proper temperatures during every step of prep: slicing, breading, mixing, etc. 

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    Cooking

    Check frequently with thermometers and use timers to ensure food is cooked properly to maintain safety standards.

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    Cooling

    Avoid irreversible food safety risks by cooling cooked food properly and storing separately before reheating to serve.

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    Reheating

    Consider time and temperature to safely reheat cooked food, and don’t mistakenly think this will remedy improper cooling.

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    Holding

    Keep both hot and cold food at recommended temperatures when holding before, during and after service.

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    Serving

    Look beyond temperatures to personal hygiene and cross-contamination to help ensure safe food is served to customers.

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    Advantages of HACCP Food Safety

    By implementing a system based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles to carefully monitor CCPs and keep close watch on temperatures, you can activate these advantages for your business:

    • Reduction in product loss
    • Increase in product quality
    • Better control of product inventory
    • Consistency in product preparation
    • Protect your bottom line
    • Increase in employee awareness and participation in food safety
       
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