If you want to know what Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are, how to apply them, and which laws involve and regulate these practices, this post was made for you!
The implementation of GMPs is critical to guarantee the quality of your company's internal operations and offer safe products to consumers. It covers everything from the initial care regarding the facility’s project to the employee health.
If you work in the food production chain and still have questions regarding GMPs, read this post!
Good Manufacturing Practices encompass a set of measures that must be applied throughout the food production chain in order to guarantee safety regarding hygienic conditions.
Periodic checklists, work instructions, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are part of GMP. Their implementation prevents, for example, the foodborne illnesses.
Overall, the concept is based on the control of what is produced and delivered to customers, and is divided into industrial facilities, personnel, operations, pest control, raw material control, records and documentation, and traceability.
If you’re wondering if there are laws requiring the implementation of Good Manufacturing Practices, the answer is yes!
Having GMPs in place means complying with the following laws:
Attention! The absence or inadequacy of Good Manufacturing Practices can lead to consequences that range from warnings and fines, to the cancellation of the establishment's license.
With this in mind, below, we’ll explain which points you should consider in order to start developing your GMP manual, taking into account your establishment’s reality:
With this information, you can see that implementing Good Manufacturing Practices helps you keep your current customers and attract new ones. With well-implemented GMPs, your establishment will guarantee food safety, as well as your product’s final quality.
As stated by a law of physics, every action creates a reaction of equal intensity. No company is safe from being replaced by its customers, if it isn’t concerned about the quality of its deliveries.
One of the main reasons why customers replace companies is the poor quality of their products or services. Not implementing GMPs can lead precisely to this perception: problems with quality!
Because of the lack of controls, the contamination of products, unnecessary expenses with nonconformities, and difficulty in following directions by employees occur.
Keep in mind that if you offer a safe product, it will result in customer satisfaction. Never leave until tomorrow the product quality you can achieve today!
Certain companies still haven't adopted GMPs, or don't update them according to the changes in their production chain. Ask yourself if you’re one of them.
What guarantee do you give your customers regarding the processes you carry out? Can you describe the each of your employee’s role in ensuring food safety?
The lack of information about the advantages that the program provides is the main reason why many companies are in this situation.
Don't be part of this group! Understand how GMP implementation can help you:
Performing a diagnosis through a pre-audit with the use of a checklist is essential to determine the establishment’s hygienic-sanitary conditions.
The diagnosis contributes to better decision making and defines the overall roadmap for the drafting of the Manual for Good Manufacturing Practices. You’ll have a clear, simple and precise view of what needs to be accomplished.
As a result of the pre-audit, you’ll have a report of nonconformities and the corrective actions that need to be adopted in order to implement them in the company.
With the analysis in hand, you can start developing your Manual for Good Manufacturing Practices.
The structuring of the GMP Manual must be carried out by experts in food quality control. The corrective actions are carried out with the company according to the requirements of the legislation.
All health standards that are part of GMPs were established so that consumers have a guarantee of what they are buying and consuming. Respecting the rules is crucial in order for the company to offer safe and quality products.
Ensuring food safety by controlling the hygienic conditions of products and processes leads to not only consumer satisfaction, but also makes the employees' job easier.
The decisions you make are critical to your market recognition, and you have seen how easy it is to produce a safe product more efficiently than your competitors by implementing Good Practices.
In this context, the challenge of adopting GMPs won’t be a matter of merely complying with the law, but by making a difference.
In order to achieve GMPs, you should keep a checklist to verify their proper operation. In order to make this process easier, you can automate this verification through software and checklist tools specialized in the food production chain, such as CLICQ.
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