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Nippon Tinplate Certified for HACCP
01/28/2011 - Nippon Steel’s tinplate for containers has been certified for HACCP, an international guideline for food safety. Certification was given to all of Nippon Steel’s plants in Japan that manufacture tinplate: Yawata, Nagoya and Hirohata.
Nippon Steel Corporation’s tinplate for containers has been certified for HACCP, an international guideline for food safety. Certification was given by JIC Quality Assurance Ltd. (JICQA) to all of Nippon Steel’s plants in Japan that manufacture tinplate: Yawata, Nagoya and Hirohata.
The following Nippon products were registered for HACCP:
- Electrolytic tinplate and tin-free steel from Yawata Works Tinplate Mill
- Electrolytic tinplate, tin-free steel, and resin laminated tin-free steel from Nagoya Works Tinning Plant
- Electrolytic tinplate and tin-free steel from Hirohata Works Tinning Plant
This is the first award for HACCP in the Japanese steel industry. HACCP — short for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point — is an international guideline for food-safety control, announced by the food standard (Codex) committee, a joint body of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The guideline is widely recommended for adoption in many countries in the world.
HACCP is defined as “a hygiene maintenance method by which to monitor and record, on a continual basis, important points for preventing the occurrence of hazards in all of the processes of food manufacture from receiving of raw materials and manufacture to shipping”.
Unlike a conventional judgment of food safety by sampling inspection, HACCP requires that food safety should be secured, real time, by conducting hazard analysis in the manufacturing process and by constantly monitoring and recording to ensure that manufacture is carried out according to control procedures.
Nippon Steel, a world-class tinplate manufacturer, accounts for more than 70% of the combined total of tinplate exports from Japan.
Recently, against the background of the mounting consciousness of food safety hazards worldwide, leading food and beverage companies overseas, in particular, from the standpoint of the food chain, are beginning to intensify the demand for improving safety control not only to food manufactures but also to manufacturers of containers and materials.
In recognition of the globally accelerated need for still safer food and the impending need for an objective assessment of safety, Nippon has actively pursued obtaining HACCP approval. For this purpose, the company employed food-sanitation control experts and started working on improving the manufacturing and product-control levels through improvement of corresponding systems. As a result, all of the company’s steelworks that make tinplate in Japan (Yawata, Nagoya and Hirohata) have now been certified for HACCP at the same time.
The company said that upon announcement of HACCP certification, it has already received inquiries from overseas customers about expanding transactions.
HACCP is defined as “a hygiene maintenance method by which to monitor and record, on a continual basis, important points for preventing the occurrence of hazards in all of the processes of food manufacture from receiving of raw materials and manufacture to shipping”.
Unlike a conventional judgment of food safety by sampling inspection, HACCP requires that food safety should be secured, real time, by conducting hazard analysis in the manufacturing process and by constantly monitoring and recording to ensure that manufacture is carried out according to control procedures.
Nippon Steel, a world-class tinplate manufacturer, accounts for more than 70% of the combined total of tinplate exports from Japan.
Recently, against the background of the mounting consciousness of food safety hazards worldwide, leading food and beverage companies overseas, in particular, from the standpoint of the food chain, are beginning to intensify the demand for improving safety control not only to food manufactures but also to manufacturers of containers and materials.
In recognition of the globally accelerated need for still safer food and the impending need for an objective assessment of safety, Nippon has actively pursued obtaining HACCP approval. For this purpose, the company employed food-sanitation control experts and started working on improving the manufacturing and product-control levels through improvement of corresponding systems. As a result, all of the company’s steelworks that make tinplate in Japan (Yawata, Nagoya and Hirohata) have now been certified for HACCP at the same time.
The company said that upon announcement of HACCP certification, it has already received inquiries from overseas customers about expanding transactions.
