+ __''The “hygiene package” of 5 laws just recently adopted by the EU aims to merge, harmonise and simplify very detailed and complex hygiene requirements currently scattered over seventeen EU Directives. The overall aim is to create a single, transparent hygiene policy applicable to all food and all food operators, together with effective instruments to manage food safety and potential future food crises, throughout the food chain. The new hygiene law will be applicable as of 1 January 2006.''__
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__General rules__
The hygiene package introduces HACCP principles in all sectors of the food business except for the primary sector (farms). HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points and consists of seven principles:
- - hazard analysis to identify potential food safety risks (hazards),
- the identification of critical control points to prevent such hazards,
- the establishment of critical limits,
- monitoring of the critical control points,
- corrective actions if something goes wrong,
- verification to assess whether monitoring occurs correctly, corrective actions are taken in time and effectively, etc.
- documentation.
+ *hazard analysis to identify potential food safety risks (hazards),
*the identification of critical control points to prevent such hazards,
*the establishment of critical limits,
*monitoring of the critical control points,
*corrective actions if something goes wrong,
*verification to assess whether monitoring occurs correctly, corrective actions are taken in time and effectively, etc.
*documentation.
For example, two important critical control points in slaughterhouses are the prevention of faecal contamination of carcasses and ensuring the correct temperature of carcasses during storage. Such critical control points must be identified and monitored by the slaughterhouse operator. HACCP is a vital system to guarantee proper hygiene conditions.
Imported products of animal origin have to live up to the strict EU food safety standards, including the hygiene rules. The import of such products is therefore only allowed from countries and establishments that appear on a Community list managed by the European Commission on behalf of the EU Member States.
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