Preventive Controls: Overview

Preventive Controls: Overview - Zosi Learning

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Preventive Controls is a food safety system that identifies potential food safety hazards, and works to reduce or eliminate those hazards before they can contaminate the food. This preventive controls for human food overview identifies examples of food safety hazards, and explains how hazards can be controlled through monitoring of preventive controls such as critical control points. It also gives examples of how an individual can personally support a food safety plan.

Learning Objectives

Explain the purpose of preventive controls.
Understand that hazards may be reduced or eliminated by different types of preventive controls.
Identify the types of records that are required to verify that the preventive controls are working as intended.
Recognize that an individual can personally support their facility’s food safety system.