Food Safety Atlas

Product specifications

Step 1 of 8

Decide what needs a specification

What happens

List what you buy and what you make: ingredients, food-contact packaging, processing aids and finished products. Rank them by risk.

Good looks like

A bought item gets a detailed , and a low-risk dry good gets a shorter one.

How it goes wrong

exist for the items a customer once asked about, and nothing else.

Who
Technical

in raw materials are part of what a food business has to understand. also relies on written descriptions of raw materials, food-contact materials and end products.

§5.3; §8.5.1