What is the purpose for establishing the Microbiological Guidelines for Ready-to-eat Food?
The purpose of the Guidelines is to provide assistance to officers in the interpretation of microbiological analyses of ready-to-eat food and recommendations on the appropriate follow-up action for food safety monitoring and control. The food trade can make use of the Guidelines to formulate design requirements and to examine end-products as one of the measures to verify or validate efficacy of the food safety production plan.