1 / 6

Environmental Monitoring for Verification

Environmental Monitoring for Verification. AFDO June 2014 Warren E. Stone, MBA Sr. Director of Science Policy Grocery Manufacturers Association. Acting on Results. In order to act upon EMP results the program needs to be an effective one.

primo
Download Presentation

Environmental Monitoring for Verification

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Environmental Monitoring for Verification AFDO June 2014 Warren E. Stone, MBA Sr. Director of Science Policy Grocery Manufacturers Association

  2. Acting on Results • In order to act upon EMP results the program needs to be an effective one. • Results are truly a result of environmental conditions and not from program shortcomings.

  3. Should we have an environmental monitoring program (EMP)? • The decision to incorporate an Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) into a company's food safety plan is done following a product and process risk evaluation • The EMP may not be needed in all manufacturing situations • Such a determination should be the outcome of a thorough, comprehensive and robust hazard analysis and risk evaluation

  4. However... • An EMP is NOT a control program in itself • Verification program to ensure all other food safety programs are effective • Sanitary facility design • Sanitary equipment design • Hygienic zoning • Traffic patterns • Separation of RTE and non-RTE areas • Good manufacturing practices • SSOPs • Employee hygiene training

  5. Seek and Destroy • An effective EMP program is a “seek and destroy” mission • Objective is to find potential niches of pathogenic growth and implement corrective action plans and mitigation steps to eliminate them • The objective is not to generate clean, consistently negative results • If all current sampling sites yield negative results, go look somewhere else • Positive results are viewed as an opportunity to correct and improve factory sanitary conditions

  6. QUESTIONS

More Related