While a facility is often composed of many individual assets, there are frequently a critical few that, if not operational, would preclude the business from achieving its objectives. The environment for this 'value-creating" activity is almost always critical. The capital investment of a building or facility is to support one or multiple business purposes. Accordingly, provisions for any critical equipment must be accounted for in order to support the sustainability of the business entity. Violate environmental standards of the business organization.Ĭritical equipment often impacts safety, regulatory compliance, cost, or operational throughput.Significantly impair the ability to safely meet business objectives.DescriptionĬritical equipment is any piece of equipment or machinery that could do any of the following: As with all business practices, managing critical equipment requires an auditable process to ensure that operational risk reduction is actively pursued in addition to all other pertinent business objectives. The failure of these critical assets is the very risk that must be mitigated if not eliminated. If these thresholds are not met, the product is not considered safe.In the realm of facility management, there are assets that are absolutely mission critical to the business especially as they pertain to building operations. As long as these thresholds are met, the product is considered safe. They are considered to have “absolute†control over the hazard.įor example, an HACCP team may decide that, for safety, a meat product needs to be heated to a minimum internal temperature of 165° and held there for 15 seconds.
A specified heat process, like pasteurizationĬCPs are based on the idea of critical limits, which are thresholds used to determine safe and unsafe conditions.Specific sanitation procedures to prevent cross-contamination at a certain part of the lineĪccording to the FDA, a CCP is “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.â€.
This means that while OPRPs are essential, their failure doesn’t automatically mean a product is unsafe. The main differences between OPRPs and CCPs is that OPRPs aren’t based on critical limits and they don’t have “absolute†control over the hazard. But, unlike regular PRPs, they do control specific hazards and steps in the process.
They are also control measures aimed at maintaining a safe and hygienic environment. Operational Prerequisite Programs (OPRPs) They do not control specific hazards or steps in the process. PRPs are “procedures, including Good Manufacturing Practices, that address operational conditions providing the foundation for the HACCP system.†These are general control measures applicable across all areas of food processing and aimed at maintaining a safe and hygienic environment. This article reviews a key component of HARPC: the difference between critical control points (CCPs), prerequisite programs (PRPs), and operational prerequisite programs (OPRPs). Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls (HARPC) is in many ways an extension of HACCP, but with a slightly different approach.
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But, for full compliance with the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), HACCP may not be enough. Most food processing companies currently operate their food safety programs based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP).