Sample Food Safety Plans for Coffee

NCA Sample Food Safety Plans—available exclusively to NCA members—are developed by coffee industry food safety experts and tailored to coffee manufacturing settings, with industry-specific hazards and controls. Not a member? Join NCA today. 

IMPORTANT: Do NOT use the plans as templates. Use the example plans to create a plan specific to your facility or to update and strengthen an existing plan.

Sample plans include:   

• Model Food Safety Plan for Green Coffee
• Model Food Safety Plan for Roasted Coffee
• Model Food Safety Plan for Flavored Coffee
• Model Food Safety Plan for Decaf Coffee
• Coffee FSMA Model Food Safety Plan Bundle

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which focuses on the prevention of foodborne illness, requires food manufacturing facilities to have a food safety plan in place. Although coffee is a low-risk food, the FDA requires food safety plans for nearly all food manufacturing facilities, including those of green coffee importers, roasters, manufacturers of flavored or instant/soluble coffee, extract manufacturers, and processors of decaffeinated coffee. 

Note: These are sample food safety plans and do not necessarily reflect the known hazards or other conditions specific to your manufacturing facility. Each sample plan is a detailed compilation of potential hazards and mitigation steps representative to conditions commonly encountered in coffee manufacturing, but needs to be tailored to reflect the actual facility, production, and food handling processes that are associated with a specific location. FSMA requires that food facility safety plans be prepared under the oversight of a properly qualified individual, or Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI). The NCA can only provide general information, guidance, and resources. It is up to you to make informed decisions for your own organization, product and process.