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Laura982

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Posted 20 May 2025 - 08:36 AM

Hello IFSQN 

 

I am reviewing our haccp and have multiple products so created 2 process flows. First we have sweet cakes and tarts such as sponge, loaf cakes, cookies flap jack all of which I don't feel should have baking as a CCP. However we then also make egg custards. I am thinking these fall under the second flow for savoury pies and quiches which will have baking as a ccp but then based on reading old posts, failure to cook the quiche will be noted due to liquid egg being present. 

 

What are your thoughts please?


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Posted 20 May 2025 - 12:53 PM

Do your Risk Analysis of each hazard.  Typically baking/cooking to a specified internal temperature is used to kill off microbes that can be present in the ingredients or environment.  Once the baking step becomes the way to control any micro growth from the earlier steps, then it is your CCP.  

 

FDA source for cookie CCPs:

https://www.fda.gov/...pter-6)-PDF.pdf

 

Previous discussion that looks applicable:

https://www.ifsqn.co...-and-high-care/


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Posted Yesterday, 08:34 AM

I'd be more inclined to suggest egg based foods are going to be CCPs but with baked products, the rule of thumb I always had was that if the point you needed to cook it to for food safety was close to the point where it would be acceptable for quality, it's probably a CCP.  For bread for example, you'd still have dough when you're well past the food safety limit.  

 

For egg based products, I suggest those temperatures are pretty close.

 

There is a famous controversy in Spain about their tortillas (not the bread, the egg based potato omelette) and how the traditional way of cooking them perhaps caused a food safety incident.

 

How to cook Spanish tortilla: Salmonella outbreak sparks national debate - BBC News

 

Some people will not reject egg products that are perhaps a little underdone.  Especially if they come from countries with vaccinated flocks.  Runny yolks in the UK are commonly eaten but when they're shown on Facebook recipe videos, the US posters are up in arms "needs more cooking!" 

 

(From the country that eats rare hamburgers... But that's another topic!)


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