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[Charles.C]

Hi Chris,

 

It's true that BRC do seem to report a lot of construction-related NCs.

 

Maybe there are increasing numbers of smallish, antiquated/converted food manufacturing establishments needing certification. Based on threads in this column such facilities do seem quite common in USA ?  Mom &Pop's Manufacturers ?.

 

Personally, i have always found good "pickings" within the HACCP Validation area. And arguments. 

[sdavies2008]

May auditors state they can always find things in terms of document control and GMP/cleaning opportunities. This seems to be common. I have found it depends on what the auditors experience and past jobs are. If they were sanitation managers then the look deep at cleaning, if they are more into paperwork then you will get non-conformances there.

 

One thing about my company is we have 41 plants and we have a group of auditors so we tend to know where the focus is so can fix at other sites and shame on you if you do not grow on the non-conformances of others.

Sarah

[alvindman]

A beginner in implementation of FSSC and we got HACCP-related findings for both Stage 1 and Stage 2. We shifted from one certifying body to another and they have a lot of differences on how to approach the HACCP principles and documentation.

 

That OPRP or CCP thing? It happened to us. :)

[alvindman]

IFSQN should have a like button too. :)

[pooled]

I'm pleased with the new proposed change in SQF where "...drinking is permissible under conditions that prevent contamination...", since we received a n/c for an empty coffee cup in a trash can inside the facility and should have been disposed of before entering. Was not a concern for contamination.

[foodsafetyAUS]

GMP issues are the most common one.


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[Brendan Triplett]

I got gigged for Seafood HACCP.  I was told I needed a HACCP for vacuum packed smoked fish, just in case we ever receive one.  We never have received one but it is precautionary just in case.  This was a first for me.  Anyone else ever get hit for a possibility of something happening.. maybe.. at some point... in the future 

 

Cheers!

[paulwill10124]

The most common as far as I am concerned is personnel not complying with personal hygiene rules - simple annoying things like not storing boots on boot racks, not wearing hairnets/snoods correctly, not having their overcoat done up properly etc.

 

However, with the shift of emphasis in BRCGS version 9 to developing a food safety culture, I hope that, in time, we will personnel complying with personal hygiene rules not because Technical say they have to but because they know it is the right thing to do and because they want to.  Being the sad old chap that I am, I am looking forward to implementing BRCGS 9 and the food safety culture - it's something I implemented in other places without realising that that's what I was doing.

[Scotty_SQF]

Past several years its been cobwebs...each year we really keep up with it, but low and behold they always seem to find a new place that has cobwebs.