HACCP system
Our compliance with Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points ensures that perishable goods, such as food, are transported under the latest safety standards. Also, the HACCP system helps to reduce costs in food logistics. As a logistics company for Osnabrück, we are experts in our field.
HACCP system
Our compliance with Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points ensures that perishable goods, such as food, are transported under the latest safety standards. Also, the HACCP system helps to reduce costs in food logistics. As a logistics company for Osnabrück, we are experts in our field.
HACCP system for legal compliance
The HACCP system helps customers to be supplied with safe groceries from the point of view of consumer safety. Because our company PDL GmbH specialises in packaging and dry food logistics, the HACCP system plays a key role in our daily operations.
The HACCP standard matters to us because of our own motivation, as we want to offer our customers the highest standards of service. In the following, we explain our work with the HACCP system and the benefits and assurances our customers gain from it.
HACCP: definition and affected businesses
In its long form, HACCP means „hazard analysis and critical control points“. The HACCP standard refers purely to food and is used to identify and prevent hazards to consumers from food products at an early stage.
For this purpose, so-called critical control points are defined in the HACCP system. If these points are violated, the respective food products are not allowed into the consumption cycle. In addition, exceeding or falling below the critical control points requires an adjustment of the processes in the business in order to ensure that these control points are adhered to in the future and that it does not regularly happen that food cannot be admitted to the consumption cycle.
Ultimately, the HACCP system not only helps to identify and avoid hazards at an early stage. The HACCP system also helps to reduce costs in food logistics and prevent damage to products. The latter contributes to inventory security. Thus, the HACCP system is a grateful standard for us, our customers and all logistics companies, which shows optimisation approaches in logistics and encourages their implementation.
The seven principles of HACCP as a guide
When developing and implementing a company’s internal HACCP system, principles must be observed. This applies to every logistics procedure controlled by companies in the HACCP system. The following seven HACCP principles are involved:
- Hazard identification
- Determination of critical control points at various process stages
- Determination of limits for critical control points
- Develop and implement procedures to control critical control points.
- Decide on corrective actions in the event of non-compliance with critical control points.
- Establish verification measures to monitor compliance with the first five principles.
- Establish a system of documentation to demonstrate compliance with the first six principles
Incidentally, all businesses that carry out any of the following activities on or with food are affected by the requirement to set up a HACCP system: Preparation, processing, production, packaging, storage, transport, allocation, treatment, distribution.
HACCP system at PDL GmbH: How we fulfil our obligations
As a company for food logistics, the activities of packaging and storage apply to us in any case. If you book our services in the fulfilment warehouse or our transport services, the activity of transport also applies to us. Therefore, we have to set up our own HACCP system.
In order to ensure compliance with the principles and thus a legally compliant HACCP system for all these activities, we have implemented several procedures. Through these procedures, we ensure an accurate hazard analysis and the swift initiation of adequate measures in the event that critical control points are not met or exceeded.
Compliance with further standards and our own hygiene concept
In order to offer ourselves and our customers, who entrust us with the storage of their food, an even higher level of safety, we not only have an HACCP system, but also work according to the IFS Logistics and FSSC 22000 standards. Furthermore, we have developed our own hygiene concept. We regularly train our employees in hygienic aspects and document these training courses for quality management.
In addition, we work together with a renowned company in the field of pest control. As part of this cooperation, we have had a precise analysis of the current situation for our company (hazard analysis and risk assessment) and a monitoring concept specially tailored for us. This monitoring includes the systematic establishment of control points for monitoring in our properties in order to be able to detect a pest infestation at an early stage. We work with an online documentation system that makes optimal monitoring possible.
Our HACCP system is your chance for flawless food logistics
Are you a food business owner yourself and would you like to optimise your food logistics? Or are you without your own logistics and would like us to support you as your food logistics partner by setting up legally compliant and efficient logistics for you? Is it important for you to comply with the regulations of the HACCP system and other standards?
Get in touch with us! As a logistics service provider with a wide range of services, we are capable of storing your food (with the exception of chilled and frozen goods).