In the United States, HACCP was mandated through regulation for seafood in 1994, for meat and poultry in 1996, and proposed for fresh fruit juice in 1998,with regulations for other food industries expected in the future (Morris, 1997). Aus-tralia, New Zealand, and Canada also have mandatory or voluntary public pro-grammes to encourage the adoption of HACCP (Peters, 1997; Dean, 1990). As an outcome of its use in most developed countries, HACCP is increasingly practiced in less developed countries that export food products into industrialized markets(Merican, 1996).