DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCEDURES TO ENSURE THE MICROBIOLOGICAL SAFETY OF FOOD

This paper discusses the concepts applied by the food industry to assu re the microbiological safety of food products. It considers the devel opment of these concepts and their relevance to the current needs of t he industry. It discusses hazard and risk ranking, testing and measure ments, design to a performance standard and the application of HACCP. It also considers, in depth, the use of formal risk assessment schemes based on hazard and exposure measurement and some of the difficulties of applying such schemes to measure microbial risks.