VeloxCann Academy: HACCP 101

Food businesses in Canada are required to have a Food Safety Plan, which is a set of written procedures that help to eliminate, prevent or reduce food safety hazards that can cause your customer to become ill or injured. Your Food Safety Plan also helps to protect your business from:

• The financial and legal consequences of causing food poisoning or a food-borne illness outbreak

• The financial and legal consequences of causing a severe allergic reaction from improperly handling food allergens

• Losing customers as a result of a reputation for unsafe food handling or unhygienic premises

Food Safety Plans are based on the 7 Principles of HACCP.

2 Pillars of HACCP Success

1. Management Commitment & Support (Top-Down Approach)

   • Dedicated resources and budget for employee training and capital expenditures

2. Effective Prerequisite Programs, Monitoring, and Record-Keeping for:

   • Calibration

   • Foreign Material Control

   • GMP’s

   • Maintenance

   • Pest Control

   • Product Labeling

   • Sanitation

   • Storage / Transport

   • Supplier Approval

   • Training

   • Waste Disposal

   • Water Pot-ability

5 Preliminary Steps to HACCP

1. Assemble the HACCP Team

2. Describe the food and its distribution

3. Describe the intended use and consumers

4. Develop the Flow Diagram of the process

5. Verify the Flow Diagram of the process

7 Principles of HACCP

1. Conduct a Hazard Analysis

2. Determine the Critical Control Points (CCP’s)

3. Establish Critical Limits

4. Establish Monitoring Procedures

5. Establish Corrective Actions

6. Establish Verification Procedures

7. Establish Record-Keeping Procedures

About VeloxCann Inc.

VeloxCann Inc. is a family-owned managed services provider on a mission to level up small to mid-sized manufacturers and processors in pharmaceutical, cannabis, and food & beverage. Our goal is to provide our partners with enterprise-level practices and solutions at SMB pricing.

We have taken 30 over years of pharmaceutical experience in a GMP environment to provide customized on-site technical support such as vendor management, equipment and workforce support, and lab consulting.

We understand the challenge businesses face of having limited resources yet must concentrate on all areas to deliver results. This often leads to firefighting mode, missed targets, and costly downtime.

Costly downtime and inefficiencies stem from blind spots we can’t afford to miss but are too time-consuming to effectively monitor. That is the VeloxCann edge: proactive maintenance and continuous improvement to reduce downtime, waste, and costs while letting you get back to doing what you do best, even better.

YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR SUCCESS. AS YOU GROW, WE GROW.

Additional information is available through www.veloxcann.com or info@veloxcann.com