Reduce the risk of safety hazards in your food products by implementing an audit-ready HACCP software

Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP)

Build HACCP plans, define critical controls, and keep monitoring and verification evidence connected.

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Connect HACCP Plans, Critical Controls, and Evidence
Trackmedium's eQMS HACCP module brings prerequisite programs, product and process information, hazard analysis, and critical control points into one structured system. Guide a plan from initial setup through validation and effective-date publishing. Define monitoring and verification responsibilities, retain the resulting records, and connect corrective actions when further follow-up is needed. Keep published plans current through periodic reviews and controlled revisions.

Build Plans and Prerequisite Programs
Create HACCP plans with ownership, locations, establishment information, and internal or external team members. Maintain prerequisite programs (PRPs) with their scope, supporting files, review dates, and distribution lists. Reference the appropriate published PRP when a hazard is managed through a prerequisite program.
Describe Products and Process Flows
Record product details, intended use and consumers, ingredients, packaging requirements, storage conditions, and distribution methods. Define the process steps and attach a flow diagram. Load those steps into hazard analysis so each identified hazard stays associated with the part of the process it affects.
Analyze Hazards and Determine CCPs
Document biological, chemical, and physical hazards with likelihood, severity, significance, and the reasoning behind your decisions. Use the CCP determination decision tree for significant hazards. For hazards identified as critical control points, record critical and operational limits; for PRP-controlled hazards, link the relevant prerequisite program.
Define Monitoring and Verification
Specify what to monitor, how, who is responsible, equipment, frequency, and recommended corrective actions. Define verification activities with their own responsibilities and schedules. Reminders prompt the assigned people to initiate records, and published plans provide linked monitoring and verification records for capturing results and review.
Validate, Publish, and Connect Training
Retain the plan's validation description and supporting record links before preparing it for publishing. Make plans effective on their effective date and notify the electronic distribution list. Connect document-based training or Read & Understood to the plan, with training starting at Awaiting Publishing.
Review Results and Maintain Revisions
Review monitoring and verification results and create linked CAPAs when corrective work is needed. Use periodic review records to retain findings and the next review date. Route change or obsolescence requests for approval, retain revision history, and access hazard analysis and CCP summary reports from published plans.
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HACCP Lifecycle at a Glance
These six activities summarize a longer plan workflow, from product and process definition through hazard analysis, CCP controls, validation, and publishing. Published plans stay connected to separate monitoring, verification, and revision records.
Set Up the Plan Assign ownership, locations, team members, and supporting prerequisite programs. Set Up the Plan Assign ownership, locations, team members, and supporting prerequisite programs.
Define Product and Process Describe the product and ingredients, record process steps, and attach a flow diagram. Define Product and Process Describe the product and ingredients, record process steps, and attach a flow diagram.
Analyze Hazards and CCPs Assess hazards at each process step and determine CCPs or the relevant PRP controls. Analyze Hazards and CCPs Assess hazards at each process step and determine CCPs or the relevant PRP controls.
Establish the Controls Define limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification responsibilities. Establish the Controls Define limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification responsibilities.
Validate and Publish Retain validation evidence and publish the plan on its effective date. Validate and Publish Retain validation evidence and publish the plan on its effective date.
Monitor, Review, and Revise Record results, review findings, and manage controlled updates to the published plan. Monitor, Review, and Revise Record results, review findings, and manage controlled updates to the published plan.
Built for Food Safety Teams
Trackmedium's eQMS HACCP module helps food safety teams connect plans and prerequisite programs with hazard decisions, monitoring results, verification findings, and controlled revisions.
Food Production & Processing
Retain plan validation evidence, monitoring and verification records, and revision history to support your organization's food safety procedures and audit preparation.
  • Food Manufacturing
  • Dairy Processing
  • Meat & Poultry
  • Bakery Production
  • Ingredient Processing
Food Handling & Distribution
Replace scattered planning files and logs with linked plan information, assigned record reviews, and evidence your team can keep current.
  • Foodservice Operations
  • Food Distribution
  • Food Warehousing
  • Retail Food Operations
  • Beverage Production
Why Trackmedium eQMS?
Trackmedium eQMS helps teams centralize quality data, automate work, and keep decisions traceable across the full quality system.
Keep the Food Safety Plan Connected
Bring product details, process steps, hazard decisions, PRPs, and critical controls together. Retain the context behind each decision as teams develop and maintain the plan.
Make Responsibilities Clear
Define who monitors each CCP and who performs verification. Use scheduled reminders and assigned record reviews to keep responsibilities and recorded results visible.
Retain Evidence for Review
Keep monitoring results, verification findings, validation links, review records, and revision history available with the plan. Give your team a clearer basis for audits and improvement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we manage prerequisite programs as well as HACCP plans?
Yes. The module includes separate PRP records for program scope, supporting files, ownership, review dates, and distribution. PRPs follow their own review, approval, and publishing workflow. When CCP determination identifies a hazard as PRP-controlled, select the relevant published prerequisite program.
How does the plan support the seven principles of HACCP?
The plan provides structured sections for hazard analysis, CCP determination, critical limits, monitoring and corrective actions, verification, and the related records. Product descriptions and process flows provide the starting context. Your food safety team supplies and evaluates the technical content and retains the plan's validation evidence.
What is the HACCP plan workflow?
The standard plan workflow is Draft, Describe Product, Develop Process Flow, Conduct Hazard Analysis, Determine CCPs, Establish Critical Limits, Establish Monitoring Procedures/Corrective Actions, Establish Verification Procedure, Validate Plan, Awaiting Publishing, and Published. The six lifecycle illustrations summarize these activities and ongoing maintenance; they are not six workflow states. PRPs and monitoring or verification records have separate workflows.
Does Trackmedium determine whether a hazard is a CCP?
The CCP determination action presents decision-tree questions for significant hazards and populates a determination result from the answers. Your team records the hazard assessment and supporting justification. A PRP determination lets you link the relevant published prerequisite program; CCP determinations lead to entered critical and operational limits.
How are monitoring and verification results recorded?
Authorized users create monitoring records from CCP hazards in a published plan and verification records from its verification activities. Each record keeps a link to the plan, the procedure information, the person who performed the work, the date and time, and the results. Records move from Initiated to Review and then Completed, or return for further work.
Can we create corrective actions from a food safety finding?
Yes. Use Create CAPA during the Review step of a monitoring or verification record. The resulting CAPA links remain with that record. Reviewers decide when corrective action is needed; scheduled reminders do not evaluate results or create CAPAs automatically.
Can HACCP plans and PRPs require training?
Yes. Assign document-based training or Read & Understood to HACCP plans and PRPs. Training can begin at Awaiting Publishing. Publishing follows the document's effective date, and electronic distribution notifies the intended readers when the document is published.
How do we update or retire a published plan?
Complete a periodic review record with findings, a next review date, and its review output. Changes Required creates a change request for approval; Document is no longer needed creates an obsolescence request for approval. Accepted changes create a new Draft revision, while accepted obsolescence retires the plan. Authorized restoration also creates a Draft revision. Prior revisions and retired records remain subject to configured access permissions.
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