Check food safety management procedures for minced meat, meat preparations and meat product establishments
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to check food safety management procedures (FSMP) for minced meat, meat preparations and meat product establishments. Checking FSMP is important to the production of a final product that meets organisational and regulatory food safety requirements. You will need to be able to check FSMP for incoming raw materials, processing operations, buildings and buildings maintenance. You must also be able to check identification and marking of minced meat and meat preparations. This standard is for you if you work in food manufacture and/or supply operations and are involved in the checking of FSMP for minced meat, meat preparation and meat product establishments.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Check procedures for control of raw materials
check documentation relating to control of raw materials is in
accordance with Food Business Operators (FBO's) Food Safety
Management Procedures (FSMP)
identify non-compliance
address non-compliance within the limits of your responsibility
Check procedures for processing operations
check FBO's FSMP to current regulatory and organisational
requirements
check the following areas are covered in the FBO's FSMP
• transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
• materials entering and product leaving the establishment
• temperature controls
• processing of materials
• wrapping, packing and labelling
• identification, separation, storage and disposal of animal byproducts and food waste
• product (suspect) sampling
confirm compliance with current micro-biological testing
requirements
carry out sampling to organisational requirements
identify and take appropriate action to deal with any noncompliance, including emergencies
Check buildings, maintenance and hygiene
inspect buildings and equipment
inspect the maintenance of buildings and equipment
check hygiene standards of the establishment and operations in
accordance with the FBO's FSMP against current requirements
identify areas of non-compliance
address any non-compliance within the limits of your responsibility
Check identification procedures
check identification marking materials are being used in
compliance with the regulations
identify and take action to deal with any non-compliance
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the importance of food safety management procedures (FSMP) to
the production of minced meat, meat preparations and meat
product establishments
why document control is important to FSMP
the current organisational and regulatory requirements relating to
FSMP document control of raw materials
- the FSMP relating to the reception, storage and processing of
materials
- the organisational and regulatory requirements of FSMP for the
following areas
• transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
• materials entering and product leaving the establishment
• temperature controls
• processing of materials
• wrapping, packing and labelling
• identification, separation, storage and disposal of animal byproducts and food waste
• product (suspect) sampling
- the importance of microbiological testing to checking FSMP for
minced meat, meat preparations and meat product organisations
- the regulatory and organisational requirements for microbiological
testing
- the FSMP requirements relating to the structure, maintenance and
hygiene of an organisation
the hygiene requirements for organisations and its procedures
how to identify and mark products according to organisational and
regulatory requirements
the actions required in the event of non-compliance
reporting and actions needed to verify Food Safety Management
Procedures (FSMP)
the appropriate actions to be taken by the FBO when noncompliance in the FSMP against current requirements is identified
how verification judgements are concluded in accordance with
FSMP
- the reporting and action to be taken by the authorised officer in
the case of non-compliance
- the organisational responsibilities under Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) legislation