Sounds good, can you give examples?
Regards,
Tony
Hi Tony,
A key info to note, is that, as a Team when we reviewed the
HACCP we had individual opinions about the effectiveness of any particular control either on its own or as a part of a set of controls addresssing a particular hazard. So a 'non value adding control' is not something you always get unanimous agreement to
. Plus, I readily acknowledge that this was a consequence of a general
HACCP review , rather than a focussed approach to find redundant controls.
But for an e.g.:
1.
In the water treatment area, there was a carbon filter which was used to strip the water of Chlorine post chlorination. (chlorination used as sterilant). Due to changes in the system some time back, the water is no longer chlorinated by council and we had moved to other sterilsation techniques. But the Carbon filter remained in the process ( as it has potential to remove other taints etc..). ( We could find no history of taints incoming, and on audit of the hydraulics find the probability very low.)
Now in the review ,you find the carbon can actually add more of a micro risk (if not maintained) and is no longer required for the purpose envisaged in the original design.
2.
On the other hand, one of the lines has got containers coming in and being depalled oto the line manually (Operator placing on conveyor). Ideally, one would have a rinser to clean out physical contaminants from the containers, but in this case the line was such that there is no place for a Rinser.
The
HACCP team had identified the 'Operator" as the control measure (provided with training, visual aids etc), to inspect the containers during the process of depalling and ensuring that physical contaminants (of Visible size) are absent. As a consequence the 'operator' becomes the
CCP.
When we reviewed the
HACCP again in later years, we find that the operator ( not witstanding skills and zeal) could not gaurantee the requirements of 7.4.4 and we had no option but to classify the hazard as one which was 'Uncontrolled". We presented this to Mgt, highlighting potential consequences and got documented plans for moving the line to a different site.
Apologies if the e.g are vague, as the process also rapidly got modernized subsequent to the reviews which made some of the suggestions redundant, but I raised this point to highlight that as FS managers we can contribute to bottomlines as well as reduce risks.
Cheers,
SriramB