Food Safety & HACCP Compliance
New EU Legislation (EC No 852/2004) on HACCP 2006
The current EU Legislation (1995) states that Food Business must
carry out a hazard analysis. However it makes no reference to
physical traceability i.e. writing the results down. Therefore
in replacing the current EC Directive 93/43 the new EU Directive
EC No 852/2004 comes into effect on the 1st January 2006 requiring
all Food Business operators to have in place, implement and maintain
a permanent procedure/s based on the HACCP principles to include
corrective action procedures where critical point events fall
out of their limits.
The new legislation is needed to modernise, consolidate and simplify
EU food hygiene legislation. It is intended to apply effective
and proportionate controls throughout the food chain, from farm
to fork.
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