FOOD QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY

Abstract

Food safety system mainly focuses on identifying and preventing hazards that may lead product to deteriorate. The main important of manufacturing practice is a system that ensures that products meet food safety, quality and legal requirements. The hazard analysis and critical control point system, applies to food safety management, uses the approach of controlling critical points in food handling to prevent food safety problems. Besides enhancing food safety, other benefits of applying HACCP include effective use of resources and timely response to food safety problems. In addition HACCP can be part of GMP and is a systematic program to assure food safety. It is important to know to what extent the systems contribute to the total quality of the product and to balance the tools used for achieving the quality and safety objectives.