Diseño de un Manual de Buenas Prácticas de Manufactura para la Agroindustria San José ubicada en la Parroquia Antonio José de Holguín

Abstract

A Good Manufacturing Practices Manual was designed for the San José Agroindustry, located in the parish Antonio José de Holguín, Canton Salcedo, Province of Cotopaxi, dedicated to the processing and marketing of meat products, with the purpose of implementing in the future with the necessary economic resources to obtain the GMP Certification by Resolution 067 2015 GGG of the National Agency of Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA). Through, this legal basis, the initial situation of Agroindustry San José was diagnosed by a checklist granted by the ARCSA, Ministry of Public Health and the General Principles of Food Hygiene of the Codex Alimentarius, which has 178 items and 5 levels of evaluation, as a result, As a result, there was 51 percent critical noncompliance, 28 percent compliance, 10 percent of parameters that do not apply to the Agroindustry because of its Artisanal category, 7 percent of major noncompliance and, finally, 5 percent of minor noncompliance in its meat by-product processes. The problems were identified by means of a checklist and then a stratified analysis, and subsequently an Improvement Plan was drawn up based on the Deming Cycle together with an analysis of the costs proposed for the agroindustry. Therefore, the result of this process was the development of Standard Operating Procedures and Sanitation Procedures, which are key elements in food safety and innocuousness for the welfare of society.