HI Folks,
Apologies if this query has been covered elsewhere but I was looking for opinions please on whether a particular step is a CCP or not.
The scenario is of a chicken processor who receives whole chilled chicken carcasses which are then portioned into fillets, thighs, legs etc and then packaged and sold on. At one stage the chicken fillets pass through X ray to determine if they still contain bones and then proceed on to packaging if they dont.
I have been challenged as to whether this x ray stage should really be identified as a CCP in the HACCP plan. My instinct says it depends on the supplier specification- if assurances are made to the customer that fillets are truly boneless fillets then yes, but if not the X ray stage should not be a CCP, because the customer must have some reasonable expectation of intrinsic physical contamination i.e. bones however small.
I am looking for a reasoned critique of this logic please - would you agree or disagree with the above?
Thanks
Regards
Stephen