GHP & HACCP

All consumers have the right to expect and demand safe, good quality food. A lack of food safety assurance can lead to failure of food businesses and destroy national food sectors. Food safety/quality management and assurance systems along the supply chain ensure that food businesses can keep food safe. This set of preventative controls may include Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Practices on Animal Feeding, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Hygiene Practices (GHPs) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. In particular small scale producers and traders in developing countries need support in planning and implementing food safety management programmes in line with internationally recognized standards.

FAO’s Work on GHP & HACCP

FAO promotes the application of preventive food safety management systems by food business operators along the food chain in line with Codex guidelines and recommendations. Drawing upon decades of international experience at all stages of the food chain, FAO supports the development of the capacity of concerned stakeholders, in particular small-scale producers and traders at national and local levels from both public and private sectors by:

promoting the application of GHP at all stages of the food chain, and the HACCP system as appropriate, in line with Codex guidelines and recommendations;
promoting sustainable development of capacities and systems by national institutions (private and public) to enable delivery of technical assistance within the country;
developing tools and training materials for adaptation and use in support of national training programmes with the aim to strengthen important value chains and develop sector-specific national codes of practice.

GHP & HACCP toolbox for Food Safety

This toolbox translated the set of guidelines and norms governing Good Hygiene Practice (GHP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) into practical online guidance for the application of the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene