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HACCP: Integrating Science and Management through ASTM Standards
Citation:
CANFIELD, T. J., L. Kapustka, AND G. Linder. HACCP: Integrating Science and Management through ASTM Standards. Presented at The 29th Annual SETAC North America Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 20, 2008.
Impact/Purpose:
Hazard analysis-critical control point (HACCP) evaluation may be considered a risk management tool suited to a wide range of applications
Description:
From a technical perspective, hazard analysis-critical control point (HACCP) evaluation may be considered a risk management tool suited to a wide range of applications. As one outcome of a symposium convened by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) in August, 2005, the recently published ASTM Standard Guide for Conducting Hazard Analysis-Critical Control Point (HACCP) Evaluations (E2590) describes a stepwise procedure for using existing information, and if available, supporting field and laboratory data concerning a process, materials, or products potentially linked to adverse effects likely to occur in the environment as a result of an event associated with a process, e.g., the dispersal of a potentially invasive species, the release of a chemical, or a change in land- or water-use. HACCP evaluation is a simple linear process or a network of linear processes that represents the structure of any event; the hazard analysis (HA) depends on the data quality and data quantity available for the evaluation process, especially as that relates to critical control points (CCPs) characterized in completing HACCP. Control measures target CCPs and serve as limiting factors or control steps in a process that reduce or eliminate the hazards that initiated the HACCP evaluation. The main reason for implementing HACCP is to prevent problems associated with a specific process, practice, material, or product. Together with existing ASTM standards, including Guide for Assessing the Hazard of a Material to Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses (E1023), Guide for Development and Implementation of a Pollution Prevention Program (E 1609), and Guide for Framework for a Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making Process (E 2348) and others available from ASTM subcommittees, many tools are readily available for technical analysts working with stakeholders characterized by a wide range of technical backgrounds and oftentimes conflicting perspectives of shared problems.
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