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Food Safety Plans

Food Safety Plans. GAP/Food Safety Plan Processor/Preventive Controls Food Safety Plans Is this required for GAP?. Produce Food Safety Plan. GAP Food Safety Plan. Policies and procedures: GAP standards Water quality Manure/Biosolids Worker Health and Hygiene

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Food Safety Plans

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  1. Food Safety Plans • GAP/Food Safety Plan • Processor/Preventive Controls Food Safety Plans • Is this required for GAP? Produce Food Safety Plan

  2. GAP Food Safety Plan • Policies and procedures: GAP standards • Water quality • Manure/Biosolids • Worker Health and Hygiene • Toilet/Handwashing Facilities • Sanitation – in field/harvesting, field house, packing facility, PYO, transportation • Temperature Control • Traceability • Pest Control • Training

  3. GAP Food Safety Plan • General grower information • Who are you? • Crops grown, site location? • Person(s) responsible • Water source? • Type of soil amendments/handling/storage • Facilities available • What are you going to do? What is your policy? • How are you going to do it? • Analysis • Training • Treatments • How often are you going to do it? • What records are you keeping?

  4. Processor/Preventive Controls Food Safety Plans • Pre-requisite programs • Sanitation, Food defense, GMP’s etc. Records when needed. Separate or part of plan? • HACCP-type food safety plan - written • Hazard assessment and identifying prevention controls – biological, chemical, physical – reasonably likely to occur. • What are these? Guidance? • Critical points: limits to control hazard, monitor, records, correct as needed, verify • Reassessment requirements • Goal: Ensure controls in place to keep food that may cause foodborne illness from entering commerce

  5. Seems difficult to do

  6. Elements of a GAP Food Safety Plan • Location of farm, responsible person • What is grown and where? • Water source, irrigation method? Risks? • What kind of worker training related to health policies and hygiene? • What chemicals/fertilizers are being used? Manure handling? • Are there toilet and handwashing facilities available? • How is the produce packed/handled? • Equipment cleaning and sanitation? • Animal control/exclusion? • Pest control • Transportation

  7. Elements of a GAP Food Safety Plan Examples of records/documentations are kept in line with plan? • Water testing – municipal and well, easy. Surface water? Your pond vs. stream • Manure/Compost/Fertilizer application • Pesticide application (already being done) • Temperature log of farm stand (if necessary) • Harvest log for traceback

  8. Harvest log for traceback • Crop • Who packed the produce (crew, group, individual)? • What field did it come from? • Date of harvest • Date packed • Date of sale and to whom

  9. Penn State:http://extension.psu.edu/food-safety/farm

  10. Coalition of industry, non-profit and government stakeholders, USDA created free on-line tool to help farmers create a customized food safety plan. Reducing foodborne risks whether or not under FSMA http://onfarmfoodsafety.org/

  11. Required for GAP? RI GAP vs. Buyer requirements vs. “USDA” GAP

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