HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) is a food industry safety program developed to help prevent food contamination and enable more efficient government oversight of the food production process. Establishing stringent record keeping guidelines, HACCP places the ultimate responsibility for product safety squarely on the food manufacturer or distributor. Rather than concentrating on the end-product, HACCP focuses on ensuring product safety throughout the food production process, identifying critical control points that must be checked and recorded at each stage of the process.

The key to HACCP compliance is record keeping, because if there is an issue or problem, data allows regulatory officials to examine what happened and when. Many companies currently rely on a paper-based system that depends heavily on employees to follow the rules and perform the checks. However, faced with steep penalties for non-compliance, many leading food manufacturers are turning to automated processes for more accurate and reliable information than what a paper driven system can provide.

Avanceon has decades of experience helping clients automate their HACCP procedures. Benefits include:

• Storing all HACCP data in a single database
• Facilitating easy data retrieval
• Helping to ensure compliance quickly and effectively
• Enabling automatic HACCP checks
• Ensuring proper Standard Operating Procedures are being used
• Production of Compliance Reports
• Tracking of Out of Compliance incidents