Rina's Reflection for Food Safety Package 1

Food Safety Package 1 requires us to come up with a food product, make HACCP plan . Do a write up on the processes and find out about the rationale of each processes and identify the CCPs in the processes. Apart from that we were given a case scenario on product recall. Hence, we were required to do research on product recall.
The product that we had decided as a group is Combat ration Cheesy Chicken Pasta . A product “inspired” from Singapore Food Industries Combat ration product. We had decided on this product because we want to take a challenge to do research on a product with such difficult processes from the normally pre-packaged foods. Our curiosity encouraged us to pursue with the product.

To start, we had an online meeting. But to our dismay, our online meetings always end up fruitless and we decided to do a face-to-face meeting for easier conversations. Our first meeting was successful in a way that everyone was able to make it and contributed their ideas to fill the FILA chart and decide on a product. Tasks were delegated according to the FILA chart and we were also given a due date for each task. By doing this, we are training ourself to work as a team and finish work before due.

Doing research during internship is very difficult. Even though I end work before
others do, I always reach home lethargic and leave me no time to do research. Apart from that, I was the only person in the group who is working in shifts. I had to work on Public Holidays where the rest are’nt working. Planning is very important, we must be effective in planning our own time for school work, work and personal things. Apart from that, we had also realized that we need to do double check for all the things we do especially when our teacher claimed that he had not received our work. We had apolagized to our teacher and assure that it will not happen again. We learn from mistakes.

For the content of package 1,we had learn HACCP in our previous semester hence this is a revision for us especially in identifiying CCPs and understanding the HACCP plan. However, the challenge is to find out the actual processing steps of the product due to confidentiality. Internet and books literature are sometimes based on general information hence there are a lot of different information. I was confused of which information to extract and use as a reference for our project. Product recall is another of which we had not yet learnt. This was slightly easier than the processes steps as the information given are very straightforward. By researching about Product recall, I finally understand the different types of recall and the job scope of the authorities.

To conclude, even in the hectic lives, the outcome of work will be reflected according to the efforts we had put in. Through sleepless nights researching and waking up the next morning for work , we had finally done our report by consolidating the information we had found. Most students never liked the idea of Problem Based Learning though, deep down we know it helped us alot in working as team, generating ideas and researching skills. For the hard work everyone has done, we deserve a pat on our back =) Good Job! Keep improving!