There were five sampling points with 250 samples being taken
each time (n ¼ 250). At the first sampling point, prior to the
implementation of any systems, 21 (8.4%) of the food samples were
reported to be non compliant. After implementation of the PRP's
(stage 2) this dropped to 15 non-compliant samples (6%). At sampling
point 3 (after implementation of HACCP) the non compliant
samples were also 15 (6%) but at stage 4 and 5 (after implementation
of CYS and ISO 2200) the number of violations increased
to 22 (8.8%) and 27 (10.8%) respectively. Although there were more
non compliances at the end of the process than there had been in
the beginning, these differences were not found to be statistically
significant.