Dear Appaji,
I would like to understand first that is 7.4.4 asking us to differentiated between OPRP and CCP or is it asking us to catogorize the control measures such that to understand which will be controlled through either OPRP or through HACCP Plan.
I’m not sure I fully understand yr question but I think the answer is both.
Regarding yr comments relating to the Codex Decision Tree, (a) hv you seen the comments in a parallel thread to this? –
http://www.ifsqn.com...dpost__p__44092May answer some of yr queries although lacking a final solution, (b) hv you studied Fig3 in ISO 22004 which equally does not offer an explicit solution but is intended to spell out the chronological processes involved.
(Also note the location of (box [8.2]) in Fig3 as compared to Fig 2.)
If you mean “authenticated” by ISO, one hopes that the auditing profession represents a competent proxy. AFAIK, all the basic procedures presented in this forum have been accepted by some auditors although I recall one or two posters noting that their auditors were not satisfied with the “simpler” methods [inc. one from India I think but a few years back]).
The procedure > “Codex Tree” > CCPs + (all/some) defaults to OPRP is surely the quickest to perform and document (and remember that the control measure [CM] has already been validated [w/o Critical Limits?]). The (Q1-Q4) formula given for OPRP in above link is, I think, additionally in use in at least 1-2 commercial software packages, maybe more.
How much “typical” auditors do care is a topic of interest but requires input, eg from auditors/users of the standard. Perhaps it is like traditional
HACCP, as long as the well-known
CCPs are present (and some “logical approach” for OPRPs is given), everything is OK. The only certain thing IMO is that the ISO team who originated the OPRP concept hv certainly generated an amazing amount of (futile?) discussion which, with a few extra lines of clarification or an example, could IMO hv been totally avoided.
Rgds / Charles.C
PS - At least the elevation of PAS 220 should hv removed some of the confusion regarding PRPs vs OPRPs.
I guess the
CCP/OPRP confusion might be diminished if BRC included OPRP in their next revision.?