MEP's Role
Dickinson Frozen Foods sent participants to attend a 3-day HACCP training provided by TechHelp, a member of the MEP National Network™ that included high-quality instruction and materials, interactive exercises, and certificates of completion. Day one focused on prerequisite food safety programs that ensure products are free from objectionable hazards creating a sanitary food processing environment. The final two days focused on how to develop a HACCP plan and implement a HACCP System. Participants learned the five preliminary tasks, the seven key HACCP principles, and how to build a HACCP plan that included product descriptions, flow charts, hazard analysis, and a critical control point matrix. The training session included a discussion on the Food Safety Modernization Act and the proposed Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls regulation and its impacts on HACCP systems.