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Full Name: | Safe Food Enhancement System | |
Basic data: | Type of the project: | IST FP5 project, Preparatory, accompanying and support measures |
| IST SO: | Workplace design | |
| Project Reference: | IST-1999-20842 | |
| Launch: | November 2000 | |
| Duration: | 20 months (finished) | |
| Consortium: | 5 partners from 2 countries | |
| Coordinator: | van Helsing Ltd., United Kingdom | |
Website | http://www.vanhelsing.com/SaFES/SaFES.htm | |
Description: | SaFES trials a web-enabled software tool using
well-established HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point)
principles to improve the quality of processes within food manufacturing
plants. The SaFES tool is used by a team led by the manufacturer’s
HACCP implementer to help conduct a hazard analysis and determine the
critical control points (CCPs) with their associated limits and define
corrective actions. SaFES then gathers real-time data via easily
installed data loggers linked to a secure management system to
automatically monitor the CCPs. Corrective actions can be established
with customers. Reports of non-compliance and associated corrective
action are documented and can be examined via authorised web-users
within the supply chain. SaFES thus reduces effort expenditure in
developing, running and auditing a HACCP-based quality system. The results of the trial are far reaching and are examined from the perspective of each user role participating in the trial, viz: food processor, reseller, consultant and auditor. There are implications on policies and standards with the suggestion that regulatory bodies and audit authorities could well update the way they work with e-Work and ICT as the catalyst. Concepts such as SaFES have potential for society and its peoples from raising competitiveness, fuelling future growth in European industry, ‘setting the standard for Europe’, affecting the types of employment in Europe, improving the quality of life for people by allowing them to work smarter and cut down travelling. There is scope via the use of e-working for protecting and preserving the natural environment. | |
| Relevance to HYDRA: | One of the HYDRA’s goals is improving quality control of food production equally as it is in SaFES project case. | |