The Developmental Assessment and Upleveling of meat products for Food Production Premises proceeding to excellent level GMP

Abstract

           This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the results of developing and upleveled of the premises fall in the scope of factory and not fall in the scope of factory by GMP420 proceeding to GMP excellent level (≥80%) using a one-group pretest-posttest method. Data were collected from a total of 37 sample groups. The instruments used for data collection were the Summary of Food Production Facility Assessment Results Form, TorSor1(63) (audit report), which was applied for all types of food, and the Food Production Facility Assessment Record Form according to the Basic Requirements, TorSor2(63). The research was conducted between September 2024 and December 2024. The first round of assessments of meat product production facilities, both those not classified as factories and those classified as factories, was conducted. Then, recommendations were given for correcting and improving various deficiencies to comply with the criteria of the requirements in the record form, referring to the guidelines for inspecting food production facilities according to the Good Manufacturing Practice criteria enforced by law (GMP420). After that, the production facilities were assessed a second time, and the results were summarized. Data were analyzed using the t-test statistical method, dependent sample.
           The results of the research found that the scores of the second round of food production facility assessment results were higher than the first round. Statistically significant (p-value < 0.05) in all 5 categories and separated by category, showing the results of the proactive assessment, resulting in better development and improvement of the establishments. There were 11 meat product manufacturing establishments that passed the assessment criteria to a very good level, divided into 1 meat product manufacturing establishment that was not classified as a factory, passed the criteria to a very good level (≥ 80%), and 10 meat product manufacturing establishments that were classified as factories, passed the criteria to a very good level (≥ 80%).