Laboratory Tests for HACCP System Application

Official food control has the purpose of verifying and guaranteeing compliance of products with provisions aimed at preventing risks to public health, protecting consumers' interests and ensuring the fairness of commercial transactions.

Without prejudice to the primary responsibility of Food Sector Operators (FBO), it is up to the official control bodies to verify the achievement of adequate guarantees in terms of safety along all stages of the food chain, from primary production to processing, storage, transport and trade, up to to administration and consumption.

The rules governing the sector are of Community origin and establish the production and control requirements to allow the free movement of products.

CSI offers to support companies and large-scale distribution, expertise and experience for the implementation of chemical and microbiological analytical plans on the legal parameters of food safety with withdrawal directly at the point of sale or at the company.

According to the HACCP methodology, in the field of corporate self-control, each work environment must be constantly monitored and controlled in order to ensure proper health and hygiene conditions.
For example, analytical data from the analysis of surface swabs is useful for determining the appropriateness of using particular disinfection products, for evaluating and validating company sanitisation procedures and for identifying any corrective actions to be taken.

The CSI FOOD microbiological laboratory is able to support Companies to carry out swabs on the work surfaces and sanitized equipment directly on the company site and carry out a microbiological analysis in the laboratory to verify whether the sanitation procedures are valid and / or whether they are carried out correctly.

The Laboratory also performs microbiological control of the confined air in the working environments, both by passive and active method (sampling with SAS), according to the specific requests or needs of the Customer.
Environmental monitoring on materials, production lines and air is carried out both in the Food and in the No-Food sector (e.g. companies producing packaging for food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies).

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