Food safety and compliance overview

Crown's food safety tools help you build your preventive control plan, run the programs behind it, and keep evidence that the plan is actually being followed. The pieces live in three places in the main menu — two under Quality and one under Production — and this article maps how they fit together.

Food Safety

The Food Safety section is where your plan is authored:

• Hazard analysis: work through each step of a product's process and record the hazards and how you control them. See Hazard analysis and preventive controls.
• PCP document: assemble your preventive control plan into a single PDF from the data already in Crown. See Generating your PCP document.
• Recall plan: your documented recall procedure and the log of mock recalls you run to test it. You can also open and edit the same plan on the recall program's own page under Documents, alongside that program's reviews and evidence. See Your recall plan.
• Matrix: every hazard for a product as a single grid of hazard against process step, so you can see where the same concern recurs.
• Approach: the position you take on supplier control as a whole, which fills Section 3 of your plan. See Hazard analysis and preventive controls.
• GRAS review: ingredient classification. See GRAS review and ingredient classification.
• Operations record: a PDF of your recent operational evidence — verifications, open findings, program status, chemicals in use. See Getting ready for an inspection.

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Documents

The Documents section holds your prerequisite programs, the standing programs that underpin food safety: sanitation, pest control, allergen control, water safety, and more. Each program is a living record you activate, monitor against, and keep current. See Setting up a prerequisite program and Logging monitoring checks.

Facility → Traffic Flow

One piece of your plan is authored outside the Quality section. Facility, under Production, has a Traffic Flow tab where you draw how ingredients, people, product, and waste move through your plant, and mark the points where those routes cross.

An activated traffic flow renders into Section 6 of your PCP alongside the plant schematic. See Mapping traffic flow through your plant.

How it ties together

Your hazard analysis can point a process step at a prerequisite program instead of listing controls for it individually, so the two sections reference each other. The monitoring you log against your programs becomes the evidence in your PCP document. The traffic flow map you draw on the Facility page becomes part of that same document. And the Compliance health card on your dashboard watches the whole picture, flagging overdue calibrations, expiring evidence, and programs that have gone quiet. See Compliance health on your dashboard.