The Medical HACCP Alliance

Originally Published MDDI January 2003

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is a consortium of industry representatives, academics, and regulators dedicated to promoting the application and implementation of the HACCP principles to medical device manufacturing.

The Alliance works to increase public awareness of HACCP, providing training and technical support for medical device companies that wish to implement HACCP plans. Another of its major activities is the development of a voluntary standard.

"The self-appointed job of the alliance is to convince people that HACCP is a good thing," says Alliance vice chairman William Hyman, professor and interim head of the biomedical engineering department at Texas A&M. "It is systematic, it captures the critical control points, and ultimately you make better products more cheaply and more reliably by redirecting your effort to the parts that really count."

For more information on the Medical HACCP Alliance, visit www.medicalhaccp.org.

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