.
The Kohonen's ANNs also called “self-organizing map” method,
is closely related to cluster analysis (partitioning) and other
methods of data analysis (Kohonen, 2001; Murtagh & HernindezPajares,
1995). An important application of ANNs is pattern recognition,
which in the current study was done by declarations of
designated by the management employees on HACCP system
implemented in their own food business. The aim of this study was
to apply the Kohonen's ANNs for analyzing descriptive information
on the HACCP system declared by surveyed food business
operators