Quality and safety assurance according to ISO 22000: 2005 in a meat delicatessen industry of Cyprus.

Abstract

Quality and safety are very important for the meat delicatessen industries. In Cyprus, food industries have started to apply safety programs the past few years in a preliminary way in order to comply with the current food safety directives or regulations. The verification activities in food industries encompass sampling for monitoring GMPs-GHPs and CCPs and determination of microbiological variables, review of records, flow diagrams and HACCP plan. The pre- sent paper describes the application of the above according to the standard ISO 22000:2005 in a meat delicatessen indus- try in Cyprus.