To produce safe and wholesome foods manufacturers need to focus on food safety programs, including prerequisite programs, and look at how they might be improved. Food safety involves hard work and a complete understanding of the processor’s operations, including potential food safety hazards and a program designed to control these hazards. Two points on the road to building a program are internal audits and management reviews. Internal audits should be designed so each element in the food safety management system is evaluated independently and should focus on whether procedures are being followed, records are being kept properly, corrective actions are being performed and closed out, and the persons responsible for doing the work have been trained. Inputs for each management review should include records and activities from previous reviews, analysis of verification activities, descriptions of corrective action programs, new information that could affect food safety, customer feedback/consumer complaints, internal and external audits, and any other elements that make up the food safety management system.
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