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APPSC FBO: Food Hygiene, Sanitation and Quality Management Systems (HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000)

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Food Hygiene, Sanitation and Quality Management Systems (HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000)

What this domain tests

The seven HACCP principles, the twelve Codex steps, prerequisite programmes, GMP/GHP schedules and the ISO 22000 family. Questions often ask you to place a step in the right stage of the HACCP logic or to classify a control as prerequisite, operational prerequisite or CCP.

HACCP skeleton

  1. Conduct a hazard analysis. 2. Determine CCPs. 3. Set critical limits. 4. Monitor. 5. Establish corrective actions. 6. Verify. 7. Keep records. The Codex sequence adds assembling the team, describing the product, identifying use, constructing the flow diagram, on-site verification of the diagram, and then the seven principles.

Supporting systems

  • Prerequisite programmes: GHP, pest control, potable water, personal hygiene, supplier approval, calibration, traceability, training.
  • GMP covers premises, layout, equipment design, cleaning-in-place and sanitation standard operating procedures.
  • ISO 22000:2018 uses the high-level structure, combining HACCP with management-system clauses and requiring operational PRPs for hazards not managed at a CCP. FSSC 22000 adds sector-specific PRP requirements.
  • Verification confirms the system works; validation confirms the control measure can actually achieve the intended hazard reduction.

Worked example

A pasteurised juice line lists pasteurisation, metal detection and chilled storage. Pasteurisation is a CCP (critical limits 72 degrees C for 15 s, continuous recorder). Metal detection after filling is a CCP (test piece rejects hourly). Chilled storage at 4 degrees C is an operational PRP, because the hazard is controlled by temperature discipline rather than a batch-release critical limit. Calling all three CCPs is the typical error.

Traps

  • Swapping validation (before) with verification (after).
  • Confusing a correction (adjust the process) with a corrective action (deal with affected product plus root cause).
  • Assuming ISO 22000 certification replaces the FSSAI licence - it does not.
  • Forgetting record-keeping as the seventh principle.