While there are several generic beef HACCP documents: available to the beef
industry, these lack sufficient detail to be of any use other than as a ge
neral guide to HACCP. A document which clearly identities and provides a so
und scientific basis For potential critical control points (CCPs') and deta
ils critical limits, monitoring and corrective actions is clearly required.
The objective of this paper is to provide such information. A detailed des
cription of CCPs' for two different HACCP systems (an intervention and a no
n-intervention system) are presented and the advantages and disadvantages o
f each are discussed. Individual beer plants may then make an informed choi
ce as to which HACCP system is most suitable fur them and have all the spec
ific information required for effective implementation. (C) 2001 Elsevier S
cience B.V. All rights reserved.