ECONOMICAL HACCP PLAN FOR A HOSTEL KITCHEN

1. Assemble the HACCP Team

 The HACCP team, responsible for developing and maintaining this food safety plan, must be identified.
 Where possible, this should be a multidisciplinary team using expertise from various groups within the
site, example: the cook, the food service staff, the warden etc.

2. Process Flow Chart

 The purpose of a process flow chart is to provide a simple, clear description of the steps involved in your
process, ensuring that all processes mentioned in your scope are covered.
 The flow chart developed should include all steps the food goes through while under control, and in
order of operation.
 It should also include any inputs into the process including ice, salt, food ingredients and chemicals etc.
The use of symbols (for operation, storage, transport etc. is optional.)

It is important that the flow chart is correct and complete as they are the basis for the hazard analysis.

3. Hazard Analysis
 All potential hazards that may occur at each step outlined in the flow chart must be identified.
 When deciding what hazards may occur, consideration should be given to:
 • the process that is occurring;
• the particular properties of the product;
• any other raw materials added;
• equipment in contact with the food;
• amount of contact by food handlers; and
• packaging or storage containers.
 When identifying the hazards, only consider what is happening atthat step. If other food substances are
added, hazards related with these ingredients would also need to be identified.

4. Control measures
 Once a hazard has been identified, the next step is to consider what control measure(s) can be used for
each hazard.
 Control measures (also referred to as preventative measures) are anything that will prevent, eliminate or
reduce the hazard from occurring.
 In some cases effective support programs are sufficient to control a hazard (e.g. a cleaning and sanitation
program) and so these can be documented as the control measure.
 In other cases, specific activities other than support programs are required to control a hazard, these are
referred to as critical control points

More than one control measure may be used to control a hazard, and a control measure may be used for
more than one hazard

5. Determine Critical Control Points

As part of the hazard analysis,

 CCP’s must be identified.

 CCP’s are defined as a step at which control can be applied and is essential to prevent or eliminate a
food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

6. Establish Critical Limits

 Once CCP’s are identified, next step is to determine at what point the food may become unsafe at that
particular step in the process.

 Numerical values must include units and maximum, minimum or acceptable range of values.

 Critical limits usually refer to a parameter that can be checked while the step is occurring (e.g.. time) so
that if the limit is exceeded, effective corrective action can be taken immediately to correct the process
and to prevent the unsafe product from reaching the hostelites.

 Therefore hazards that relate to food poisoning micro-organisms are typically controlled by effective
temperature control and/or control of chemical parameters of the food (eg pH and salt). Examples of
typical critical limits include:

 Temperature and time parameters for cooking

 Temperature for storage

 Physical checks such as the presence of foreign objects

7. Establish Monitoring Procedures

Once the critical limits have been determined, requirements for measuring against the critical limit needs to
be established (eg monitoring procedure). Examples of monitoring procedures include:

 Temperature checks;

 Measuring the chlorine concentration in water;

 Measuring the salt concentration;

 The data collected must be recorded accurately.

8. Establish Corrective Actions

The corrective action procedure should state:

 How to bring the process back under control;

 What to do with food produced while the process was not controlled; and

 Who is responsible for the corrective action?

 Food produced while the process was not under control should either be reworked/reprocessed or
rejected.

 A record of the corrective action(s) taken must be maintained.

Rules of Safe Food Handling

1. Strict personal Hygiene by all cooks.

2. Identify all potentially hazardous foods on your menu and write down you food handling procedures.
Make these written procedures part of your daily practice, and regular self inspections.

3. Obtain Food from other suppliers from reputable, approved sources.

4. Observe the rules for time and temperature and for preventing cross contamination in storing and handling
food prepared in advance of service.

5. Keep Raw products separate from ready-to-eat foods.

6. Avoid cross-contamination of raw and ready to eat food from hands, equipment and utensils. Clean &
sanitize food contact surfaces and equipment before and after every use, after an interruption and at least
every four hours during continual use.

7. Cook or heat-process food to above the recommended minimum temperature’s.

8. Keep hot foods hot & cold food cold. Store or hold foods at 140 F or higher or at 40 F or lower.

9. Chill cooked food to 40 F within four hours.

10. Reheat food to an internal temperature of at least 165 F for at least 15 seconds within two hours.