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Food safety

Control-point checks and follow-up, where the work happens.

Control-point checks, missed limits and corrective actions stay with the lot they concern.

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Operator in hood, mask, safety glasses, white coat and blue gloves reading a probe thermometer beside an enclosed cooling tunnel of sealed trays, holding a rugged tablet, with a colleague in protective clothing behind

  • Checks against limits.

    Operators record checks against the limits your food safety plan sets.

  • Missed limits followed up.

    A missed limit links to its corrective action and the quality decision.

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    Checks and actions sit with the lot and work order, so you can show them together.

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Control point CP-3 checks product core temperature leaving the cooling tunnel on Line 4. Four stages, including a missed limit.

CP-3 · Cooling · Line 4 · WO-8120

A missed limit, corrected and verified

Try it: take the reading, record the correction, then verify.

Core temperature at 90 min · limit ≤ 5 °C
4.2 °C

Previous reading in limit.

Limits and corrective actions come from your own food safety plan; a person verifies.

Explore the details: every stage, with limits and set-up notes

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Step 1 of 4

CP-3 · Cooling
From your food safety plan
  • HazardAs set by your team
  • Limit≤ 5 °C core · example
  • Monitoring3 trays / 30 min
  • Corrective actionHold, re-chill, assess

Qualified people write and oversee the plan. Values are examples.

Your plan sets the control and the limit

  • Your qualified people set control points, limits, monitoring and corrective actions.
  • V5 records against what your plan says; it does not write the plan.

V5 holds the plan record and its control points; your qualified people do the hazard analysis and set the limits.

More on plan: full record and set-up

Also on this record

Plan owner
Food safety lead

Limits and frequencies shown are examples, not recommendations.

US rule
21 CFR 117.126 requires a written food safety plan for covered facilities (eCFR, checked 29 Sep 2026). Other markets have their own rules.
Free buyer guide · 14 pages

Food Safety Control & Traceability Buyer Guide

For food safety, quality and operations teams choosing software for monitoring, corrections and traceability. Use it with or without V5.

  • 1Know which framework applies.
  • 2Record excursions and corrections.
  • 3Rehearse a recall exercise.
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  • Which framework applies: Codex, US, EU, schemes
  • HACCP, CCPs and preventive controls
  • Suppliers, prerequisites and allergens
  • Monitoring, limits and excursions
  • Corrections, corrective actions and verification
  • Traceability and recall exercises
  • Buyer tests, evidence matrix and RFP

Chapters: where food safety records fail · which framework applies · HACCP, CCPs and preventive controls · suppliers and incoming materials · prerequisite programmes · allergens and labels · monitoring and excursions · corrections and verification · traceability · recall exercise · buyer tests and RFP · where V5 fits and sources.

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Guide page 11: one step back, one step forward traceabilityGuide page 9: monitoring, limits and excursionsCover of the Food Safety Control & Traceability Buyer Guide

Food safety records with the production record

Checks, missed limits and decisions sit with the lot and work order, so release reviews and recalls start from one place.

Recall managementQC releaseFood processing

What's included

What supports your food safety plan, and which plan each item needs. Compare plans

Checks and follow-up

Recorded against your limits.

Checks at the step · Lots and traceability · Calibration

Explore food safety
  • Checks at the step
    Readings against limits, flagged when outside.
  • Lots and traceability
    Events kept with the lot.
  • Calibration
    Probes and instruments in calibration.
  • Deviation managementProfessional and Enterprise
    Missed limits with corrective actions and holds.
  • CAPAProfessional and Enterprise
    Lasting fixes with effectiveness checks.
  • Electronic signaturesProfessional and Enterprise
    Signed product decisions.
  • Allergen changeover checksAvailability to confirm
    Changeover flagged between runs, with swab and test results recorded.
  • Sanitation scheduleAvailability to confirm
    Tasks, chemicals and pre-op checks signed by the person who did them.
  • Glass and pest registersAvailability to confirm
    Glass and brittle-plastic items and pest stations logged.
  • Mock recall drillsAvailability to confirm
    Time to trace, units accounted for and gaps found.

Availability to confirm: the capability exists in V5, but which plans include it, and whether it is enabled for you, is not yet confirmed — ask us. Your qualified people write and oversee the plan and decide on product. V5 records against that plan; it does not do the hazard analysis or guarantee compliance.

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