Benefits and Advantages of Implementing the HACCP Plan

 

The HACCP plan is an effective system internationally recognized as the best safety control method, which, when implemented correctly, maximizes the safe production of each company's products. This methodology helps companies effectively detect and prevent safety risks in production and comply with legal requirements for product safety.

However, the main reason for implementing HACCP by the food industry should not only be the requirement to comply with government health laws. But rather than the industry must comply with the commitment to ensure the health of the consuming public, providing them with safe food for consumption. The consumer trusts that his suppliers will supply him with safe food, achieved by implementing and verifying that the HACCP system complies with said task.

The benefits and advantages of implementing this methodology are extensive:

• It allows for demonstrating the company's commitment to the quality and safety of its products, which generates a new degree of confidence for consumers, chambers of commerce and government agencies.
• It offers and generates a better positioning for the company in the market due to the care of its products.
• Increases the level of customer satisfaction.
• Decreases the number of audits, thus reducing investment and related costs.
• Improves the relationship with regulatory authorities for product safety.
• Provides evidence of safe and efficient handling of the company's products.

Today public relations and image have become very important for the food industry, and the media play a fundamental role in helping to create a good or bad image. In today's globalized world, with access to social networks that instantly spread news worldwide, an incident of an outbreak of infection from the consumption of contaminated food usually spells bankruptcy for the company involved.

Even so, you still find companies that believe the problems associated with producing unsafe food will never affect them and have not yet implemented a HACCP system.

The risk, in this case, is great since the press discloses an outbreak of contamination due to food consumption. The reaction of the consuming public and the sanction of the health authorities are drastic even when the company demonstrates that it has implemented a HACCP system. But has failed to validate it to ensure that it is fulfilling its purpose; HACCP Consulting Services in Qatar can imagine the sanctions and legal problems that a company that lacks a HACCP system would incur.