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  • Date of Audit

  • Name of Auditor

Unit 13 Production GMP

Personal Hygiene Controls

  • Site Security: Access to building and production area controlled to prevent unauthorized access

  • Changing rooms: Are they tidy? Are all shoes on the correct racking?

  • Locker storage controls: Are lockers secure? Are personal items left out?

  • Handwashing & General hygiene controls: Is handwash available? Is sanitizer available?

  • Correct PPE controls: Are beards and snoods worn correctly? Are gloves intact?

  • Personal Hygiene: Are all fingernails short? Are there no perfume or aftershave odors?

  • Cuts, Grazes: Are all injuries covered with a Blue metal detectable plaster?

  • Jewellery Policy: Are only wedding bands being worn?

  • Personal items - Mobile phones, keys, consumable items

Physical & Chemical Control

  • Plastic Controls: Are brittle and soft plastic controls (e.g. brush conditions, glove control, tape) in good condition?

  • Pens: Are only Metal detectable pens in use?

  • Metal Controls: Are knives signed out? Are blades intact?

  • Wood Control: Are wooden pallets undamaged? Are pallets only in permitted locations (palletization / lifting tables)?

  • Miscellaneous FB's: Are clothes, labels, and paper controlled properly?

  • Equipment: Is equipment in good condition? Are there no temporary repairs or unreported damages?

  • Tools & Small Part Control: Are all vacuum parts stored correctly?

  • Chemical Controls: Are chemicals labeled properly? Are chemicals being stored in the production area with strong odors/taints evident?

  • Food grade lubricants: Are only food grade lubricants on-site? Are they removed from the area when not in use?

Hygiene & Housekeeping

  • Computer station - is it tidy with no cluttering? Is the Cupboard tidy?

  • Ingredient / Packaging Storage: Is it satisfactory? Is it shrouded?

  • Clean as you go - Environment: Are floors, walkways, and storage locations clean and free from spillages/excess build-up & accumulation?

  • Clean as you go - Machinery: Is machinery free from spillages/excess build-up and accumulation?

  • Food Contact utensils: Are they clean? Stored correctly?

  • Work stations: Are they clean and uncluttered? Are only permitted items on the stations?

  • Cleaning equipment: Are food contact and floor contact cleaning equipment clean and stored correctly?

  • Waste Management: Are the correct bins in use for waste?

  • Is waste removed at regular intervals? Is there no build-up?

  • Pest management - are controls adequate enough to prevent pest ingress and harbourage of all pest types?

  • Pest management - are pallets stored away from the walls in the interim storage area?

  • Baler Area Externals - is all waste inside the balers and not left on the floor?

Process, Product Control and Documentation

  • Traceability - Are ingredient and batch identification maintained and recorded? All part bags have full traceability?

  • CP & CCP checks and documentation - Are sieve, magnet, and metal detection checks fully recorded? Detail the batch checked

  • Are metal detection bags intact and in date?

  • CCP Competency question to be asked of operative (record question, operative name and response in the notes)

  • Packing & Labelling Control - have previous batch labels been removed?

  • Quantity / Weights - Have checks been completed and recorded?

  • Start-up checks - have equipment checks been completed?

  • Cleaning records - have they been completed satisfactorily?

  • Observe bag decant - are bags being fully emptied at Rip & Tip?

  • Finished goods - are all pallets fully wrapped and neat, are labels clear?

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