Raw material risk assessment

Risk assessments throughout the food chain have become a requirement of many standards. Raw material risk assessment has been shown to focus company´s food safety management to ensure that problems associated with their raw materials are identified and minimised, avoiding costly product recalls and withdrawals.

This one day workshop will outline a straightforward method to carry out raw material risk assessment and will allow delegates to carry out practical exercises to improve their understanding of this approach.

• Introduction to food safety
• Risk assessment methodology
  – Introduction to hazards
  – Risk criteria
  – Determination of risk
  – Product and process effects
• Exercises
• Benefits of risk assessment