HACCP Nursing Homes

The nursing homes do not have to register the HACCP data any longer if they don't carry out complex operations

Recently there was a meeting of people from nursing home institutions who are responsible for the food safety of their institutions. The meeting had been planned to discus about some HACCP issues. The subject of discussion was the hygiene code for home care.

About 3 years ago the food centre institution has been asked to formulate an hygiene code essay, for among other things for the nursing home. The food centre institution also formulated the hygiene code for large-scale kitchens in health care with help of the General Health Authority and the companies of the branch.

No contaminations?

The present hygiene code for the nursing home however brought many problems for itself. The hygiene code did not become a practical guideline. Moreover it required large administrative works. Paperwork, it only offered little added value from the eye of the users.

The present hygiene code for the nursing home however brought many problems for itself. The hygiene code did not become a practical guideline. Moreover it required large administrative works. Paperwork, it only offered little added value from the eye of the users.Remarkably, it isn't chosen to work on the paperwork solution. The revised version of the hygiene code for the nursing home, which becomes effective on May 1st 2007, has the essence to bring healthy food back. Less control, more own responsibility and the most important and most serious modification is the change of registration.

The nursing homes do not have to register the data any longer if they don't carry out complex operations. These operations are for example; cooling and regenerating. It means that food must be served directly after cooking. The largest dangers are indeed present in the complex processes such as cooling and regenerating.

Nevertheless, is the fridge not critical? 99% of the time, a product lies to wait for further process. During that period there still is a possibility of an error occurrence. In 4 out of 5 fridges imperfections are found. Kitchen assistant, chef and caretaker in home unit therefore still have an important task to submerge the number of food infections. They must continue to obey the legislation. The General Health Authority keeps track of the law. They continue checking with the colours of green, orange and red, where green means safety and in order.

And how are you going to ensure that all aspects will remain on green?

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