Title Page

  • Document number

  • Start date and time

  • Finish date and tiem

  • Led by

Issue and Risk assessment

Description of the issue

  • Description of food safety, authenticity or legality incident, including a product recall, regulatory food safety non-conformity incident

  • Description of product:

  • Batch code

  • Best Before date

  • Quantities affected

  • Production date of the batch affected

  • intended use of the food

  • target consumer group

  • sensitivities associated with that group in consuming food.

  • Has the product reached the market?

  • Has the product reached the consumer?

  • Timings

Risk assessment

  • timings

  • Risk assessment done by

  • Hazard identification: Identifying known or unknown potential health effects associated with the incident:

  • Hazard characterisation: the qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the nature of the adverse effect: Death, hospitalisation or minor injury.

  • Exposure assessment: the qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of the particular food: Number of people that can potentially suffer the above health effect:

  • Risk characterisation: the integration of hazard identification, hazard characterisation and exposure assessment to estimate the risk and its associated uncertainties: Critical Risk, Medium Risk or low risk

  • carry out a traceability exercise to locate the product distribution

  • Risk assessment signatures
  • Signature

Traceability (back to supplier) and mass balance

    If the affected product is an ingredient fill this section
  • Name of the ingredient affected affected

  • Batch number affected

  • Quantities affected

  • If the affected product is Primary packaging fill this section
  • Name of packaging affected

  • Batch number

  • Quantities affected

  • If the affected product is a closure, fill this section
  • Name of closure affected

  • Batch number affected

  • Quantities affected

  • Is the affected product a packaging with food safety or legal information printed on?
  • Affected printed packaing

  • Batch number affected

  • Quantities affected

Traceability (forward to customer) and mass balance

    If the affected product is a finished product fill this section
  • Name of finished product

  • Batch number affected

  • Quantities affected

  • Quantities affected in Stock (attache report into the media option)

  • Quantities affected sent to customer

  • Customer contacted?

  • Time of contact

  • Contacted by:

  • Quantities the customer is able to locate

  • Product identified as on hold and arranged to be returned to site?

  • Return of product to site arranged by

  • Time

  • Signature

  • Does the mass balance indicate that all the affected products have been reconciliated?

  • Product recall necessary: If it is believed that unsafe food has reached consumers contact the FSA incidents team at https://reportanincident.food.gov.uk.

  • Authorised by

  • Signature

  • time at which the recall has been initiated

  • Person initiating the recall

  • Signature

  • Contact the local competent authority to inform of the food incident. The local competent authority is Wychavon District Council and can be reached at enquiries@worcsregservices.gov.uk.

  • Person contacting the local authority

  • Signature

  • Has the product reached the consumer?

  • Product recall necessary: If it is believed that unsafe food has reached consumers contact the FSA incidents team at https://reportanincident.food.gov.uk.

  • Authorised by

  • Signature

  • time at which the recall has been initiated

  • Person initiating the recall

  • Signature

Determining the use of the returned product

  • Can the defect on the product be eliminated?

  • Product needs to be destroyed and record of destruction kept.

  • Person in charge of destroying the product and keeping records of the destruction

  • Time on the destruction

  • Signature

Plan to conduct root cause analysis and to implement ongoing improvements, to avoid recurrence.

  • why did this incident happen

  • what could have been done differently to prevent it from happening? if more than one action is required consider linking this to Mondays.

  • Who is going to take this action?

  • When is the action expected to be completed?

Other contact requirements

  • In the event of a significant food safety, authenticity or legality incident, including a product recall, regulatory food safety non-conformity (e.g. a regulatory enforcement notice) or food safety-related withdrawal, the certification body issuing the current certificate for the site against this Standard shall be notified within 3 working days.

  • Has this report been forwarded to technical@foodchainid.uk

  • Person forwarding the report (please attach copy of the email)

  • Date and time

Review

  • Robustness of the withdrawal/recall plan and procedures

  • Effectiveness of communications

  • Timeliness of actions taken

  • Roles and responsibilities

  • Incident key decision log

  • Appraisal of decision made

  • Timelines

  • Future improvements

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