Which step involves identifying preventive controls for significant hazards?

Which step involves identifying preventive controls for significant hazards?

• A. Identify preventive controls for significant hazards
• B. Verify the food safety plan
• C. Develop product specs
• D. Train employees on GMPs

Answer: (A)

Focusing on how a FSMA food safety plan is built, the step of identifying preventive controls for significant hazards is where you determine which specific controls will prevent or mitigate the hazards that pose the greatest risk. This happens after conducting the hazard analysis and deciding which hazards are significant, so you can pair each with a preventive control (such as process controls, allergen controls, sanitation procedures, or supplier controls) and plan how to monitor and verify them. Verifying the food safety plan comes next, ensuring the plan is appropriate and being followed, not selecting the controls themselves. Developing product specifications deals with the characteristics and quality criteria of the product, not hazard controls. Training employees on GMPs is about ensuring proper practices and compliance, but it doesn’t involve choosing the preventive controls for identified hazards.

Focusing on how a FSMA food safety plan is built, the step of identifying preventive controls for significant hazards is where you determine which specific controls will prevent or mitigate the hazards that pose the greatest risk. This happens after conducting the hazard analysis and deciding which hazards are significant, so you can pair each with a preventive control (such as process controls, allergen controls, sanitation procedures, or supplier controls) and plan how to monitor and verify them.

Verifying the food safety plan comes next, ensuring the plan is appropriate and being followed, not selecting the controls themselves. Developing product specifications deals with the characteristics and quality criteria of the product, not hazard controls. Training employees on GMPs is about ensuring proper practices and compliance, but it doesn’t involve choosing the preventive controls for identified hazards.