A simplified prerequisite program is a basic element for an effective HACCP system operating in small meat packaging plants. We analyzed current configuration of the prerequisite evaluation checklists and classified according to two categories of general hygiene management and prerequisite requirements. The general hygiene management items overlapping with non-HACCP plant evaluation items were excluded except for the high rate of non-compliances. Non-compliance rates were calculated to determine the weak points of the current prerequisite program operation, and the potential risk elements were included in the simplified prerequisite requirements. The data used for the analysis of non-compliance rates were from the HACCP accreditation evaluation inspection reports by the Korea Livestock Products HACCP Accreditation Service. Of the existing 54 evaluation items, we selected 37 core items as simplified prerequisite requirements for meat packaging plants. In addition, we recommended simple modification of the evaluation items, with one item for evaluation of one check point.

This study was conducted to propose the use of a non-compliance rate for evaluation of the HACCP operational condition. We calculated the sectoral non-compliance rate from the HACCP prerequisite evaluation reports. This rate indicates vulnerability of the operational prerequisite conditions that must be improved to increase HACCP reliability for safe foods. The common weak point in the livestock products industry was storage and transportation management, and operating condition in butcher shops were worse than those for the other livestock businesses. In order to obtain better information on findings, evaluation items should be improved simply with one item for evaluation of one check point.

This study was performed to investigate latent problems of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) prerequisite program operation at Korean slaughterhouses. We analyzed the slaughterhouses HACCP operation assessment reports implemented by Consumers Union of Korea during 2007 through 2008, and also reviewed the livestock products HACCP instruction manual published by Korea National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service. Non-compliance rates were 14.2% of facility management and 10.9% of sanitary management at mammal slaughterhouses, and 7.4% of facility management and 6.7% of sanitary management at poultry slaughterhouses. A big obstacle to better HACCP operation was a repeated non-compliances identified at the same slaughterhouse. Twenty-six inspection items of the facility management, which were same items used for the business permission standard, is required to be amended to a safety control purpose. Sanitary management items also should be complemented to more precise contents for practical and objective evaluation.

본 연구는 검역원의 선행요건 항목을 식약청 및 미국 FSIS의 선행요건과 비교 검토함으로써, 보완되어야 할 검역원 선행요건의 내용과 범위를 제시하고자 하였다. 검역원과 식약청 모두 HACCP 고시에서 선행요건 평가항목을 제시하고 있으나 서로 상이한 부분이 많이 발견되므로 관리항목 범위와 내용을 조정할 필요성이 지적되었다. 또한 HACCP 적용업소가 지속적으로 확대되면 업종별 작업환경조건이 다양해지므로 HACCP 고시에서는 선행요건 관리항목의 기본 틀만 제시하고 세부지침 및 일치 불일치 조건은 별도로 명시하여 관리하는 것이 선행요건의 현장적용 활용성을 높이고 평가업무의 표준화를 이루는데 필수적인 것으로 파악되었다.