Minutes of HACCP Steering Committee Meeting March 2002
DATE: 14th March 2002
TIME: 11.00am
LOCATION: Boardroom
ATTENDEES:
Dr Lisa O'Connor, Senior Executive Industrial Liaison, FSAI (CHAIR) (LO'C)
Dr Wayne Anderson, Chief Specialist: Food Science, FSAI (WA)
Dr Karl McDonald, Technical Executive, FSAI (KMcD)
Ms Dorothy Guina-Dornan, Contracts Manager, FSAI (DG-D)
Ms Cliona O'Reilly, Training Manager, FSAI (CO'R)
Mr Al Donnelly , Principal EHO, NEHB (AD)
Mr Noel Donnelly , Acting Principal EHO, NAHB (ND)
Mr Richard Fitzgerald, Principal EHO, MWHB (RF)
Mr John Moynihan , Principal EHO, SHB (JM)
Mr John Hanily , Principal EHO, WHB (JH)
Ms Rita O'Grady, Principal EHO, NWHB (RO'G)
Mr Ray Parle , Principal EHO, SEHB (RP)
Ms. Marie Greene, Senior EHO, MHB (MG)
Ms Ann Marie Part, Acting Principal EHO, SWAHB (AMP)
Ms Gwen Neary , EHO, ECAHB (GN)
SECRETARY
Ms Alison Bradshaw, FSAI (AB)
APOLOGIES:
Ray Ellard, Director Audit and Compliance Division, FSAI
Peter Whelan, Director Service Contracts Division, FSAI
Noted: Ms Ann Marie Part is now the permanent representative for the SWAHB
AGREED ACTIONS
LO'C to circulate first draft of Guidance Note on Compliance to the group before Easter.
Committee members to prepare an update of relevant activities for next meeting.
Committee members to nominate an alternative representative to attend meetings in their absence.
AGENDA ITEMS
1. Minutes and Matters Arising
The minutes of the last meeting were agreed without any changes being made.
Noted: Some members of the Committee have forwarded contact details of a representative to attend meetings in their absence.
2. National Strategy
Following comments received a revised draft of the strategy was tabled. There was some discussion on the strategy and the wording of same. The group agreed to adopt the version tabled with one additional change to clarify what was meant by 'specialist advice'.
Noted: The FSAI will email the final version to the committee, post on the FSAI website and include an article on the Strategy in the upcoming newsletter.
Agreed: Any information for wider circulation within the Health Boards will be passed through the Members of the HACCP Steering Committee.
3. Finalise Committee Terms of Reference
The following points were added to the Terms of Reference agreed at the previous meeting
Co-ordinate implementation of the strategy at Health Board level.
HACCP Steering Committee to act as Technical Working Group for standard documents.
4. FSAI Update
LO'C advised the FSAI had met with FCC Shandwick to discuss launching the HACCP Strategy. At that meeting it was concluded that it would not be useful to launch the strategy document itself but it might be useful to publicise it later in the year when sector specific guidance documents would be also available. There then followed a lengthy discussion on the usefulness of PR and ad campaigns. JM stressed that much PR work had already been done by the health boards. It was generally agreed that targeted publicity would be useful in the future. In addition, JM noted that many businesses appear to think that they have complied with the law merely by attending courses held by the health boards.
AD and other members expressed that EHOs were unsure about when exactly they should start taking prosecutions based on Article 4(2). A variety of opinions were expressed including -immediately, once the compliance doc was available, at the end of the three year strategy. JH stated that a prosecution was pending in Galway .
5. Health Board Update
There was some discussion on the sectors that the Health Boards are currently targeting locally in relation to HACCP. Most had begun by targeting health board owned premises and those serving vulnerable groups. ROG noted the difficulties health board owned premises faced in trying to find money to implement HACCP.
6. Guidance Note on Compliance
LO'C advised that RE had not had time to produce a draft since the last meeting and that she was taking the lead on this document. There was some discussion on the content of the compliance document. It was agreed that it should not include pre-requisites. AD noted that in the UK LACOTS took the approach of assessing the planning as well as the implementation phase of HACCP.
Agreed: LO'C to circulate the first draft of the Guidance Note on Compliance before Easter break ( 29 th March 2002 ).
7. AOB
WA advised the FSAI have been approached by the Catering Industry to set up a Forum between the Catering Industry, Health Boards and the FSAI. WA advised he will approach the group with invitations to the Forum at a later date.
The date for the next meeting is 9th May 2002
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