Food safety management systems for schools and hospitals

Abstract

A Food Safety Management System (FSMS) is a strategic and methodical process to recognizing, controlling, and underestimating foodborne dangers. There are several food safety management systems which have as aim to confirm food safety and consumer health. According to many researches one of the most usual food safety management systems which is used to food and hospitals is HACCP to ensure the safety of meals but also to maintain good hygiene practices. Food safety culture is about attitudes, behaviors, and the importance offered to food safety in an institution. The purpose of the study was to create a simple HACCP model for catering business in schools and hospitals. Moreover, this HACCP model will be based on electronic database forms in order to facilitate both the design and the management of the HACCP Twο different worksheets HACCP STUDY and HACCP RUN place in an excel file and created where they were divided into categories. Then the files annotated in the first step were placed in LibreOffice and HACCP electronic forms are created. With the electronic forms all the necessary documentation is deployed and the user can create queries and reports for verification and validation of the system. Therefore this system demands less paper work that is replaced with desktop database. For future development this application can be improved with presets of hazard analysis cases, with evaluations by food safety auditors and with layout improvements for the user interface. The specific study may be intended specifically for schools and hospitals but this does not prohibit any business that includes the provision of food to be interested and learn more information about the specific program and if it follows the business's conditions to be used by it. Nowadays we notice that there is a great development of technology as well as some changes in consumer preferences. As for the development of new services, there are certain factors that can affect the future of food safety management systems. For this reason, the electronic forms of HACCP will play quite an important role in catering businesses because they combine food safety and the monitoring of preventive measures by saving a lot of work time and making easier the work tasks.