The objective of this Code is to provide guidance for the processing and handling of quick frozen food to help ensure product safety and other aspects of the production of quick frozen foods including, as appropriate, essential quality provisions, composition and labelling provisions of pertinent Codex commodity standards. The guidance, emphasizing proper cold chain management, incorporates good hygienic and good manufacturing practices and the application of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) approach described in the HACCP Annex to the General Principles of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1-1969). A prerequisite programme is described in the Code, covering essential requirements of hygiene in the production of quick frozen foods that should be in place prior to the application of HACCP.