Yes Peter, during the FAO/DANIDA project (1980-1999) that trained thousands of people on HACCP and fresh fish handling, in developing countries, all around the world; we utilized several times the "motto":
Keep product cold
Keep product clean
Keep product moving
printed on T shirts.
I still have some of the T shirts, the one I have at hand now, is from the “National Fish Inspection and Quality Assurance Seminar”, carried out by the FAO/DANIDA project in Tema, Ghana, from 14 to 25 September 1992; 15 years ago! (I think we were there together).
The FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No 348, “Quality and quality changes in fresh fish” by Prof. Hans H. Huss (editor), from 1995, one of the outputs of the FAO/ DANIDA project , can be downloaded free of charge from FAO site: http://www.fao.org/docrep/V7180E/V7180E00.HTM
This publication continues to be worth reading and no specific publication on the subject (fresh fish) has been published since then. No technical document can be eternal, but Technical Paper No 348 was prepared (at that time) by very much HACCP-minded people. As a matter of fact HACCP is already there (in an early version).
Kind regards.
Hector M. Lupin
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Date : Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:16:49 -0000
Subject : Sanitisers
> Yes, I go along with Hector. Sanitizers should be considered as an aid to
> maintain the surroundings sanitary, not to disinfect fish. The principles of
> good handling practices for chilled fish can be summarised as:
>
> KEEP THE PRODUCT CLEAN - store, handle and process under sanitary
> conditions;
>
> KEEP THE PRODUCT COLD - hold in ice when not being worked on;
>
> KEEP THE PRODUCT MOVING - no delays in processing, and get the finished item
> in covered, clean packaging as soon as possible.
>
> Several years a go - in another life - I was one of the tutors at an FAO
> course in an African country on fish inspection and quality assurance. We
> drummed these principles into the participants and impressed them so much
> they arranged for T shirts for all of them and the tutors with these
> principles printed on them, apart from the words 'the product' being
> replaced by 'it'. We all wore them for the remainder of the course. I still
> have mine and wear it occasionally, but under a shirt; otherwise I would
> expect the usual phthalic association of the word 'it' in a non-contextual
> situation would occasion very quizzical looks from my neighbours.
>
> Peter Howgate
>
>
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