HACCP's benefits and importance.

HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. This is an effective method applied in the world to help enterprises in food anad beverage industry, prevent food risks to satify regulatory requirements and meet customers' needs.

HACCP is a standard which has mandatory requirements in almost countries like the US, Europe. Certification by an independent unit demonstrate your commitment of safe food.

1: HACCP Management Method:

Risk management is a basic requirement in risk analysis chain.  “ phân tích rủi ro”. This is a policy process with a view to choosing suitably control and preventive methods.

HACCP is a tool for risk management and researched in particular by Committee for Codex Food Standard established by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Heath Organization in terms of food:

Activities of risk management embrace:

• Risk assessment.
• Optional risk management assessment
• Management decisions
• Supervision and inspection.

HACCP:

• Enterprises can determine goals of food safety and hygiene to satisfy regulatory and national oror Codex requirements thanks to HACCP application.
• HACCP helps to analyze risks and avoid hazard to hinder potential damage to consumers.

2: Why should enterprises be certified HACCP:

HACCP's benefits are enormous, the most important point is a noticeable improvement of safe food processing procedure and the satisfaction of regulatory requirements.

The purpose of standard system is to ensure safe food through method of identification and risk management instead of ineffective control.

HACCP's benefits:

• It helps enterprises to be self-confident to demonstrate food safety through safe approaches.
• This standard affirms that food applied all suitably preventive methods to ensure food are safe foods.
• Customers can require vendors to be assessed and certified if domestic activities have strict laws in terms of food safety and hygiene.
• HACCP helps to save management time and rising cost.
• It minimizes damaged and recalled products.
• The relationship with the authorities in terms of food safety is improved.
• Effectivess is enhanced.

HACCP certified businesses are an effective method of communication with investors and other stakeholders, which is an important element to demonstrate a commitment to clean food that meets requirements of corporate governance, their responsibilities and financial reports.

3: How should HACCP Certificate be prepared?

The process of certification embraces:

• Identify risks of food safety and important ones.
• Identify control measures that are likely to eliminate food safety hazards themselves or reduce them to an acceptable level.
• Determine necessary specifications to ensure effective control measures. Control procedure and corrective action in case of failure are included.
• Inspect control measures.
• Create texts of HACCP system including plan for HACCP.
• Implement, inspect and improve HACCP system.

The most important of HACCP improvement, implementation and system certification is a continuous process with independent assessment for a element of the whole assessment process.