Today there was a strong debate with one of my colleagues, about a point of CCP. Discussion is whether the point can be termed as CCP or not.
At a stage, we analyzed that compressed air and gas can contain pathogenic microorganism, and it may affect the in process product. In my sense, if the contamination happens, there is no established procedure of eliminating the contamination, except just throwing the product. So, we are using a sterile terminal filter at the point of compressed air entry. I decided that point should be a CCP.
Now, someone claimed that, if contamination happens, we will detect it and throw the product. So, no chance of delivering unsafe product to the consumer. So, that point will not be a CCP, rather this can be relevant to process control. However, I know that if the product is contaminated due to failure of CCP, then we have to handle it as a potentially unsafe product, and we have to take other measures.
Could anyone explain me what would be the right in this case?
Edited by MazidM, 07 February 2022 - 03:16 PM.