Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by Adrian CHIRA, Lenuța CHIRA, Elena DELIAN, Constanța ALEXE
HACCP is the abbreviation for the English expression “Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points”. To obtain high - quality products, capable of meeting the consumer’s demands and complying with the food safety standards, certain risk-prevention and control methods should be applied. In the horticultural products processing company, the application of an HACCP system allows the identification of the key-elements of the technological process. The system analyses the hazard related to the product and the process, indicating the critical control points to the hygienic quality of the product. Starting with the fact that some of these products are ready to eat (e.g. the „fourth game” horticultural products), there are major concerns regarding the level of pesticides and other chemical contaminants, the maintenance of hygiene during harvesting, handling, processing, storage, and commercialisation. In order to prevent or reduce the above-mentioned hazards, the big specialised companies and small producers must apply HACCP prevention methods, not methods based on the final product control (which may affect consumer’s health and may lead to important economic loss). Therefore, this paper contains a HACCP study, characteristic for “ready to eat” vegetable products and explains the management of the identified CCPs.
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