Storage Procedure for Food Warehouses
Keywords Prerequisite Programs Activities or conditions that are necessary to maintain food safety along the food chain. First Expiry First Out(FEFO) The inventory management system used to control the stock-flow based on expiry dates. Storage is a vital element of the warehouse HACCP program, and in most cases, cold storage is one of the CCPs (It can be a critical point or a CCP depending on the warehouse's risk assessment ). If done wrong, it could cause product deterioration because of the flourishment of spoilage microorganisms like psychrophilic spoilage bacteria , which sometimes can be pathogenic. The storage procedure details handling of received products and the documents involved. Proper storage involves a lot of inter-linking activities aimed at protecting food products while at the warehouse. Some of these are Pre-requisite Programs (PRPs) that support storage as a Critical Control Point (CCP). They include the following; Cleaning and sanitation Temperature and hu...