The Food Processing Review Requirements ensure food safety by requiring food service establishments to develop and implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans combined with reviews of scheduled processes. This document outlines the food processing actions required of food license holders processing food in a commercial kitchen.
Food service establishments processing food in a commercial kitchen shall comply with the following:
- Develop and implement HACCP plans (See HACCP plan requirements); and
- Conduct scheduled process reviews by a food processing authority on each product listed prior to its being produced by the license holder. If the food processing authority declares in writing that there are no biological concerns with the food after evaluating the scheduled process the food shall be allowed to be produced. Before the review can be conducted, the following must be submitted to the food processing authority:
- Recipe(s) with all the ingredients and quantities listed;
- Processing times and procedures; and
- Sample(s) of prepared and processed product as ready for sale and distribution.
- The natural pH and equilibrium pH shall be recorded for each batch of product produced;
- License holders shall keep records of all pH's on file and available for review by the regulatory authority upon request;
- Another scheduled process review shall be conducted for a product that has been previously tested if the ingredients are altered or the process changes;
- License holders shall keep all scheduled process review information on file and available for review by the regulatory authority upon request; and
- License applicants shall submit process review information with license applications.
Deviations from Scheduled Processes: Whenever any process operation deviates from the scheduled process for any acidified food and/or the equilibrium pH of the finished product is higher than 4.6, the commercial processor of the acidified food shall either:
- Fully reprocess that portion of the food; or
- Discard that portion of the food.
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