Minutes of HACCP Steering Committee Meeting June 2004

DATE: 8th June 2004

TIME: 11.00am

LOCATION: FSAI Boardroom

ATTENDEES: 
Lisa O'Connor (LOC) [CHAIR]
Anne Marie Kierans, FSAI (AMK)
Dorothy Guina-Dornan, FSAI (DGD)
Teresa McCusker, DoHC (TMcC)
John Moynihan, SHB (JM)
Al Donnelly, NEHB (AD)
Anne-Marie Part, SWAHB (A-MP)
Ray Parle, SEHB (RP)
Marie Gillooly, WHB (MGi)
Marie Greene, MHB (MG)
Gwen Neary, ECAHB (GN)
Richard Fitzgerald, MWHB (RF)
Noel Donnelly, NAHB (ND)

SECRETARY: 
Alison Bradshaw

APOLOGIES:
Wayne Anderson, FSAI
Rita O'Grady, NWHB

AGENDA ITEMS

1. Minutes and Matters Arising

Some amendments were suggested to the minutes 1 st April 2004 and were subsequently agreed.

Noted: Marie Gillooly will replace John Hanily as member of the HACCP SC and attend future meetings representing the WHB

Simplified catering guide

There was a discussion on the adaptation of The Northern Ireland Guide to the Irish situation versus developing a completely new guide

Noted: It was agreed that the Northern Ireland guide was an extremely user friendly document.

Agreed: The working group will focus on modifying the Northern Ireland guide to the Irish situation

Agreed: Any difficulties encountered by the working group will be referred back to the HACCP SC

Agreed: The HACCP SC will sign off on the final document

There followed a discussion on the next target group i.e. restaurants and the categorization of same

Agreed: A survey was needed to determine the possible category for the next target group

Agreed: Each health board to supply the HACCP SC with the following information:

•  How many pubs are registered as restaurants?

•  How many restaurants (excluding pubs) have greater than 50 seats?

•  How many of those restaurants with greater than 50 seats are Asian restaurants?

Noted: Where this information is not available on file, EHOs are asked to establish it, in as far as is feasible, over the next 3 months.

2. Guidance Note 11

LOC circulated the amended document

Agreed: The content of the document was agreed and this document was signed off by the SC

3. Hotel final assessment

LOC circulated the draft results and there followed a discussion on same

Noted: LOC apologised for excluding the ECAHB data which has been mislaid

Noted: The FSAI will publish the results of the assessments on the FSAI web

Agreed: LOC will circulate the draft results including a breakdown of each health board data

4. Butcher shop document

Noted: This working group has been set-up

Noted: LOC is working on the first draft of the document for the group to review

LOC proposed putting back the target start date for butchers until the 1 st August 2004

6. FSAI Update

There was no update from the FSAI

7. Health Board update

Some health boards expressed difficulties they'd had in collating final assessment forms

Agreed: No further late assessments will be accepted

8. AOB

LOC advised she had received a call from a consultant who had encountered a number of wholesalers who didn't have a HACCP system in place

Noted: LOC advised of the HACCP strategy and advised EHO's should be contacted who will deal with such issues locally

The date for the next meeting is 9th September 2004 

Last reviewed: 11/5/2011