CCP

Hazard

Critical limits

Monitoring

Corrective actions

Verification

Record keeping

Receiving wheat, barley and millet grains and cow or goat yoghurt and salt.

Biological, chemical and physical

Supplier guarantees specifications of ingredients.

Visual inspection of supplier guarantee and sensory characteristics of each ingredient.

Reject any doubtful ingredients.

Auditing of supplier guarantee and visual inspection of characteristics for each ingredients.

Supplier guarantee

Cleaning of grains.

Physical

Sieved grains should not contain physical hazards.

Visual inspection of cleaned grains.

Grains should be re-sieved if any physical contaminants are seen visually.

Test and visual inspection of sieves.

Reports of visual inspection of cleaned grains and testing of sieves.

Incubation of mixture.

Biological

Compliance with general recommendation of good manufacturing practices. Temperature of incubation 40˚C ± 2˚C for 24 hrs.

Checked of temperature and time of inculpation and pH of cereals/yoghurt mixture.

Check and repair incubation conditions and reprocess if necessary (increase time of incubation).

Checked the incubation conditions and the final pH of cereals/yoghurt mixture.

Reports of checked temperature and time of inculpation and pH of cereals/yoghurt mixture.

Kishk formed and dried.

Biological

Compliance with general recommendation of good manufacturing practices. Temperature of drying

50˚C ± 2˚C for 24 hrs.

Checked temperature and time of drying process and pH, acidity and water activity of Kishk.

Check and repair drying conditions and reprocess if necessary (increase time or temperature of drying).

Checked the drying conditions and testing the pH, water activity, acidity and microbiological load of Kishk.

Reports of checked the drying conditions and testing the pH, water activity, acidity and microbiological load of Kishk.