Please tell me your opinions:
There is a factory that produces soft drinks. The factory carry Chlorination of water for killing bacteria then filtrate the water through carbon filter to remove the residues of free chlorine before using this water in preparing soft drinks. Any residue of free chlorine will effect on the quality of the soft drink product and will changing its color, taste and effect on the image of the company
The factory considers the carbon filtration step a CCP and they monitor the residual of free chlorine after the filtration step. (Should be free)
Also the factory consider the step of carbonation (adding Co2 to the syrup to prepare the final product)as a CCP because the CO2 may contains H2S , acetaldehyde and impurities that affect on the taste , color & company image and they inspect the received CO2 for each batch (check COA and measuring purity (should be not less than 99.9% ) and also take samples daily to check purity (99.9%) Also they change filter of the on line CO2 purifier (Dominick Hunter Type) every 6 months
My opinion for both of the above points that there no severs hazards and we can consider them as OPRPs and not CCPs. Also they affect on quality more that the Food safety So we can’t consider them CCPs. Because a little of chlorine, H2S or acetaldehyde in the soft drink bottle will not affect of the health of the consumer and he will reject the product for the first taste
The reply of the company QA that the changing in color & taste will has very bad effect on company image and violate the food laws and legislation So he have consider them CCPs
Please tell me your opinions.