IMPLEMENTATION OF HACCP TO CHICKEN SAUSAGE PRODUCTION LINE

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Food Industries Dept., Fac. of Agric., Mans. Univ., Egypt.

2 Meat and Fish Technology Res. Dept., Food Technology Res. Institute, Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

Nowadays Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) has become a prerequisite for transactions involving food products. Whereas the implementation of the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system to chicken products is of great importance in order to produce microbiologically safe foods. Chicken sausage is one of the popular foodstuffs among products of chicken meat. Therefore a thorough HACCP analysis of this product has become an important issue for public health. This paper presenting guidelines for the application of HACCP and focuses on  the flow diagrams based on the production line of manufacture chicken sausage in a small producing unite in Agriculture Research Center, and presents an analysis of the hazards and of the critical control points (CCP) and  monitoring them then verification to confirm that the HACCP system is working effectively.

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