When a food business has recalled food from the market due to non-compliance with food safety requirements, FSS suggests that the enforcement authority asks the food business to undertake a root cause analysis in order to determine the reason(s) that the food safety recall occurred.
This will allow the food business to identify the initiating cause, in a causal chain, which led to the recall or allergen incident and, additionally, the stage at which intervention could reasonably be implemented to mitigate risk and prevent recurrence in the future.
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