Hi, first post here.
We have a liquid sweeteners, molasses, corn syrup etc., operation where our CCP is a screen. Inside each screen housing is a rod magnet that is just placed inside the canister to help pick up any metal. We check the screen regularly for holes and foreign materiel and part of that check is just to make sure the magnet is cleaned and in place however it is not part of the CCP. A customer is pushing us to make that magnet a CP and establish critical limits and conduct pull tests etc. We rarely ever find any actual metal on the magnet and the screen is 20 mesh which would pick it up anyway. We are wondering if we can justify not having magnets or if it does need to be a CP, is establishing critical limits and all that necessary. We are working toward becoming BRC certified and we havent found any real info in the standard on how to handle CPs.
Any advice would really help.