GHP’s HACCP / Food Safety consultants will visit your site and review the floor plan drawings and advise the necessary changes with the existing plan or making new plans concerning the following:
Related to Design, Facilities and Operation;
- How the working space should be provided to allow for the satisfactory performance of all operations.
- The design should permit what are the criteria.
- How the building facilities to be designed to avoid cross contamination.
- How the building and facilities designed to achieve hygienic operations and regulated flow in the process from the arrival of the raw material at the premises to the finished product.
- Appropriate temperature conditions for the process and the product.
- How the building and facilities should be designed to prevent entrance and harbouring of pests and the entry of environmental contaminations such as smoke, dust, sandstorm etc.
- In the Food Warehouse or Food handling areas:
- What type of flooring should be?
- What type of wall should be?
- What type of ceiling should be?
- Stairs, lifts, cages and auxiliary structure where should be situated and constructed as not cause contamination to Food.
- How the Chutes should be constructed.
- In Food handling areas how all overhead structures and fittings should be installed to avoid contamination directly or indirectly.
- The use of material, which should not to be a source of contamination, which should be avoided unless its use would clearly not be a source of contamination.
Receiving facilities
- Proper receiving arrangements
- Proper receiving platform
- Sanitary conveniences
Food Processing Unit Facility
- Materials used in Flooring, Walls & Ceilings
- Selection of paint for the Wall and ceilings
- Doors, Windows , Stairs & Platforms
- Services (Gas Supplies , Electricity , Water Supplies, Lighting, Ventilation)
- Sanitary conveniences
- Water supplies
- Storage of Hazardous Substances
- Facilities for washing food and equipment
- Lighting for food premises
- Ventilation for food premises
- Refuse storage
Changing-room Facility
- Change Room Facility
- Washroom
- Wash basins
- Lockers, Cloakrooms and Shoe Racks
- Accommodation for clothing and personal belongings
Requirement for Hygienic Processing and Manufacturing
- Reception of raw material
- Prevention of cross contamination
- Processing
- Packaging
- Storage and transportation of end products
- Sampling and testing arrangements
- Handling of different types of product in different areas
- Special provisions for different products (eg; pork and meat)
Requirements Related to the Food Storage Temperature controls, Cross-contamination and Transportation.
- How the raw, semi processed (or) processed (or) chilled or frozen foods to be stored or handled or displayed
- What degree temperature at which Certain Food in catering operations are to be stored.
- Special Provision for Pork Meats and Pork Products
- Provision of Thermometers for Refrigerated Storage
- Storage of deep frozen foodstuff
- Storage of chilled foods
- Requirements related to date expired foodstuff
- Transportation of foodstuff
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