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[ruth masawi]

please help me distinguish between oprps and ccps in a vegatable processing plant

[Mr. Incognito]

I've been in FSSC 22000 for a year and I hate the term oPRP because... nobody else uses it... however as I understand it:

 

oPRPs also known as, for people who don't know much about FSSC22000, Operational Prerequisite Programs are controls in your system that reduce the risk of contamination in your product.  We had Control Points (CPs) that we designated are our oPRPs.

 

Typically Critical Control Points are defined as the last step where a hazard can be mitigated that has not already been reduced to a safe or acceptable level.

 

So for metal contamination you may have an oPRP (or CP) of a magnet that helps to reduce the hazard of metal contamination and you may have a metal detector downstream as a CCP (no I don't want to get into the metal detector as a CCP argument in this thread we already did that once).

 

So basically:  Prerequisite programs are designed to keep risks low.  Operational Prerequisite Programs are process steps used to keep risks low.

Edited by Mr. Incognito, 18 July 2014 - 01:55 PM.

[Charles.C]

please help me distinguish between oprps and ccps in a vegatable processing plant

 

Dear ruth masawi,

 

I presume you mean an "operational" distinguish rather than an "interpretative" one although there is overlap of course.

 

The textbook answer is you apply the paragraphs (a-g) within sec. 7.4.4, preferably after reading iso22004.

 

One approach (there are many others) -

(1) you determine significant hazards as detailed in the iso 22000 std

(2) if acceptably controllable, the appropriate validatable control measure will be a CCP or an OPRP.

(3) You evaluate the control measure via the Procert Tree which differentiates betweeen CCPs and OPRPs

 

As far as interpretation of OPRP is concerned, I would personally suggest that the beautifully ambiguous definition in the iso22000 standard has been supplanted for practical purposes by the version in iso22004. i suggest you read the latter which may enable a partial understanding (eg as much as most other people) of the intended meaning.

 

There are several reviews/comparisons of different methods to answer yr question on this forum. The one referred above is probably one of the simplest and which IMO has a sort of correlation to the ISO22000 standard's original intentions.

 

One (approx.) model iso22000 presentation specifically for vegetable processing also exists here (somewhere).

 

Rgds / Charles.C

 

PS -  if you want some opinions as for your own process, it will be necessary to post the process, preferably with a flow chart and relevant  text on it.

[Philip @ Safefood 360°]

Hi Ruth, in addition to the excellent advice above you'll find a pretty good whitepaper on the topic here: http://safefood360.c...es/whitepapers/ (first in the list)