HACCP Food Safety Terms: Hazards, Critical Control Points and Corrective Action
HACCP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, is the food safety system used by restaurants and food factories worldwide. Teams identify each hazard and rate its likelihood and severity, set critical control points with limits, and keep monitoring them. When there is a deviation, they take corrective action, keep a record of it, and use validation and verification to prove the system works.
Preventive is the key idea: HACCP prevents problems instead of testing the finished food. Verification, at 12 letters, is the longest word.
HACCP Terminology Vocabulary: 12 Words to Find
Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 7 of the 12 read backwards. The longest word is Verification, with 12 letters.
- Control: As in critical control point, a step where a hazard can be controlled, like cooking temperature.
- Corrective: As in corrective action, what is done when a critical limit is not met.
- Critical: As in critical limit, the maximum or minimum value, like a temperature, that keeps food safe.
- Deviation: A failure to meet a critical limit in a food safety plan.
- Hazard: Anything that can make food unsafe: germs, chemicals or objects like glass.
- Likelihood: How probable it is that a hazard will happen.
- Monitoring: Checking critical control points regularly, like measuring fridge temperatures.
- Preventive: Stopping problems before they happen, the central idea of HACCP.
- Record: A written log that proves food safety checks were done.
- Severity: How serious the harm from a hazard would be.
- Validation: Proving with evidence that a food safety plan actually controls the hazards.
- Verification: Checking that a food safety plan is being followed correctly, through audits and tests.
How to Solve the HACCP Terminology Word Search
"Verification" is the longest word, with the only F, and runs upward, like "preventive" and "validation". "Hazard" has the only Z and "likelihood" the only K. "Control" and "corrective" both start with CO.
Food Safety Training Activities
- Use it as a warm-up at the start of a food safety course.
- Put the HACCP principles in order, from hazard analysis to record keeping.
- Ask trainees to name a critical control point in their own kitchen, like cooking temperature.
HACCP Terminology Word Search FAQ
Who is the HACCP Terminology Word Search for?
Food safety students, hospitality staff and kitchen managers.
Which directions do the words run in?
Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 7 of the 12 read backwards. 3 of them are diagonal.
Is there an answer key for the HACCP Terminology Word Search?
Yes. Download it from the printable section above: it is a separate PDF with all 12 words marked. Online, each word is crossed off the list the moment you find it.
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