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Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms

The objective of this study was to develop a farm food safety-risk assessment tool (FRAMp) which serves as a self-assessment and educational tool for fresh produce farms. FRAMp was developed in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet software using standard mathematical and logical functions and utilised a qua...

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Main Authors: Soon, J.M., Davies, W.P., Chadd, S.A., Baines, R.N,
Format: Non-Indexed Article
Published: Elsevier 2013
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8262/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814612000623
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spelling my.umk.eprints.82622022-05-23T10:26:12Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8262/ Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms Soon, J.M. Davies, W.P. Chadd, S.A. Baines, R.N, The objective of this study was to develop a farm food safety-risk assessment tool (FRAMp) which serves as a self-assessment and educational tool for fresh produce farms. FRAMp was developed in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet software using standard mathematical and logical functions and utilised a qualitative risk assessment approach for farmers to evaluate their food safety practices. The FRAMp tool has since been tested on 12 fresh produce farms throughout UK. All the farms determined that FRAMp was interesting but 17% found it too long while 25% of the farms felt the tool was too complicated. The instructions on FRAMp usage were revised and farmers were given the options to skip and select specific steps in the farm risk assessment. The end users (farmers/farm managers) determined that developing their own action plans and using it as proof of assessment for future third-party audits were most useful to them. FRAMp tool can be described as an illustrative risk ranking tool to facilitate farms to identify potential risk factors during their crop production Elsevier 2013 Non-Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed Soon, J.M. and Davies, W.P. and Chadd, S.A. and Baines, R.N, (2013) Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms. Food Chemistry, 136. pp. 1603-1609. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814612000623
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description The objective of this study was to develop a farm food safety-risk assessment tool (FRAMp) which serves as a self-assessment and educational tool for fresh produce farms. FRAMp was developed in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet software using standard mathematical and logical functions and utilised a qualitative risk assessment approach for farmers to evaluate their food safety practices. The FRAMp tool has since been tested on 12 fresh produce farms throughout UK. All the farms determined that FRAMp was interesting but 17% found it too long while 25% of the farms felt the tool was too complicated. The instructions on FRAMp usage were revised and farmers were given the options to skip and select specific steps in the farm risk assessment. The end users (farmers/farm managers) determined that developing their own action plans and using it as proof of assessment for future third-party audits were most useful to them. FRAMp tool can be described as an illustrative risk ranking tool to facilitate farms to identify potential risk factors during their crop production
format Non-Indexed Article
author Soon, J.M.
Davies, W.P.
Chadd, S.A.
Baines, R.N,
spellingShingle Soon, J.M.
Davies, W.P.
Chadd, S.A.
Baines, R.N,
Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
author_facet Soon, J.M.
Davies, W.P.
Chadd, S.A.
Baines, R.N,
author_sort Soon, J.M.
title Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
title_short Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
title_full Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
title_fullStr Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
title_full_unstemmed Field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (FRAMp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
title_sort field application of farmfood safety risk assessment (framp) tool for small and medium fresh produce farms
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2013
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8262/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814612000623
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