Which food safety standard do you need?

HACCP underpins several schemes, and which one you need depends on your customers and markets. Codex HACCP is the baseline food safety methodology. ISO 22000 is a full food safety management system built on HACCP. Woolworths Quality Assurance (WQA) and other retailer schemes apply where the retailer requires them. Department of Agriculture and export approvals apply for overseas markets. Streamline helps you choose the right scheme and build one system that satisfies it.

HACCP Food Safety Consulting, Audits & Mentoring

Practical HACCP and food safety support, aligned to how your business actually operates and built to pass audit. Streamline helps food businesses design, implement, audit and mentor HACCP-based food safety systems across Australia.

HACCP food safety monitoring — A HACCP system is built on seven internationally recognised principles, from hazard analysis through to record keeping. The same approach underpins ISO 22000, the FSANZ Food Standards Code, Woolworths Quality Assurance and Department of Agriculture export requirements.

In plain English: HACCP is about making food safe: spotting where contamination could happen in your process and controlling it at those points.

What is HACCP?

HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) is the internationally recognised approach to managing food safety: identifying hazards and controlling them at the critical points in your process. It underpins food safety schemes including ISO 22000, the FSANZ Food Standards Code, Woolworths Quality Assurance (WQA) and Department of Agriculture export requirements.

Why food businesses implement HACCP

It is a regulatory requirement for many food businesses
Retailers and customers require it (for example WQA for Woolworths suppliers)
It is often essential for export approval
It reduces the risk of contamination, recalls and reputational damage

How HACCP and ISO 22000 certification works

Develop a HACCP plan built on a hazard analysis of your process, implement the controls and monitoring, complete an internal audit, then undergo an audit by the relevant certification body, customer scheme or regulator. We can also build HACCP into a broader ISO 9001 quality system.

We work with food businesses Australia wide. HACCP certification in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney follows the same process, and most of the work runs remotely with site visits where they add value. ISO 22000 certification takes the same path with the added management-system requirements on top.

Common mistakes when implementing HACCP

A hazard analysis that does not reflect the real process and products
Critical control points and limits that are not properly justified or monitored
Records that are not kept consistently in day-to-day operations
Skipping a proper internal audit before the external audit
No project plan naming the key dates and milestones, so timelines creep, the project loses momentum, and the certification body cannot schedule Stage 1 and Stage 2 around your actual readiness

The Streamline difference

We design, implement, audit or mentor, whatever level of help you need. Even when you build the system yourself, we provide the independent internal audit and best-practice recommendations that keep it compliant and aligned to your operations. You work directly with an experienced auditor who knows what food safety auditors look for.

The seven HACCP principles

A HACCP food safety system is built on seven internationally recognised principles. Streamline helps you apply each to your specific process:

1. Conduct a hazard analysis: identify biological, chemical and physical hazards.
2. Determine critical control points (CCPs): the steps where hazards must be controlled.
3. Establish critical limits: the measurable thresholds at each CCP.
4. Establish monitoring procedures: to confirm each CCP stays in control.
5. Establish corrective actions: for when a critical limit is breached.
6. Establish verification procedures: to confirm the system works.
7. Establish record-keeping: the evidence auditors and regulators expect.

Which standard do you need?

HACCP underpins several schemes, and which one you need depends on your customers and markets:

Codex HACCP: the baseline food safety methodology.
ISO 22000: a full food safety management system built on HACCP.
Woolworths Quality Assurance (WQA) and other retailer schemes.
Department of Agriculture / export approvals for overseas markets.

Streamline helps you choose the right scheme and build one system that satisfies it.

HACCP & food safety guides

HACCP frequently asked questions

What is the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000?

HACCP is the underlying food safety methodology; ISO 22000 is a full food safety management system standard that incorporates HACCP principles alongside management-system requirements. We can help you with either, depending on what your customers and regulators require.