The Importance of HACCP Compliance in the Food Industry
Wednesday September 24, 2014
As a uniform service provider the Roscoe Company works with a lot of customers in the food industry. The food industry has a certain set of rules it must abide by to be in regulation with standards set in place by the federal government. Therefore, the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) exists as the centerpiece of food-safety initiatives.
Some of the most common sources of contamination in food-processing environments are:
- Human hands, coughs and sneezes, hair, insects, birds, rodents
- Cross-contamination from raw to ready-to-eat food products
- Improperly cleaned and sanitized equipment, cutting boards
- Improperly cooked foods permitted to