Sample Food Safety Plans for Coffee

The historic 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) focused on prevention and established new rules to reduce potential food-borne health risks.

Although coffee is a low-risk food, the FDA requires food safety plans for nearly all food manufacturing facilities. This includes green coffee importers, roasters, manufacturers of flavored or instant/soluble coffee, extract manufacturers, and processors of decaffeinated coffee.

How the NCA Can Help

To help organizations get started, the NCA developed sample food safety plans tailored to coffee manufacturing settings, with industry-specific hazards and controls — exclusively for NCA members. Not a member? Join NCA today.

These sample plans must be adapted to your specific facility, and include:  

• Green coffee
• Roasted coffee
• Flavored coffee
• Decaf coffee

Why Use the Sample Coffee FSMA Food Safety Plans?

Developed by experienced coffee industry food safety experts, these sample plans can be used to develop a plan specific for your facility or to update and strengthen an existing plan.

Your customers expect you to be in compliance with safety standards and your company could be hit with potentially severe fines and other penalties for non-compliance with FSMA.

Purchase the NCA Sample Food Safety Plans

Please note that the NCA Sample Food Safety Plans for Roasted, Decaf, Flavored, Green (Unroasted) Coffee, and Complete Saver Bundle are available to NCA members only.

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NCA Resources’ Terms & Conditions

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!