Since if something is covered in your SOP’s, it doesn’t necessarily need to be a CCP, it seems as though it could be common to have no CCP’s for a product?
Take for instance a dry cookie dough mix that we make. Say that in our SOP’s I cover the following: for ingredients received we’ll inspect them, keep temperature logs, require certificate of analysis from supplier. For ingredient storage, they will be stored in appropriate conditions and used within the proper amount of time. All of our production equipment is cleaned regularly with logs kept and it’s in our SOP’s that all products are checked with a metal detector before packaged and shipped. And that they’re all stored at appropriate temps with temperature logs kept. etc, etc, etc.
So, if all of those things are addressed in our standard SOP’s, I couldn’t really think of any CCP’s during the process. Is that common? I can’t decide if an auditor looks at it if they would think it looked very wrong because there were no CCP’s or if I showed them our SOP’s, they would actually think it was great and that we were very thorough.
Thanks for any insight!