Food Safety
Food safety features for food manufacturing — HACCP, cold chain, corrective actions
Food Safety
The Food Safety suite covers the three pillars of sanitary control in a food plant: HACCP (in-line control), cold chain (continuous temperature monitoring) and corrective actions + compliance reports (evidence).
What is it for?
- Monitor every Critical Control Point (CCP) automatically without manual rounds.
- Trigger the corrective action in seconds when a reading leaves its range.
- Generate documentary evidence for sanitary audits as signed PDF.
How it works
One pipeline integrates: sensor reading → validation against CCP ranges → on deviation, open corrective action + notify → log in the audit trail with immutable hash → include in the next compliance report.
Rela AI includes specific tools for food manufacturing companies that need to comply with food safety regulations (HACCP, EU 852/2004, ISO 22000).
Features
HACCP — Critical Control Points
Define the points in your production where food safety is mandatory. Rela monitors your sensor data against absolute limits (not statistical) and triggers corrective action workflows when deviations occur.
- Absolute limits: Unlike anomaly detection (statistical), HACCP limits are fixed. If your oven must be at >=165 degrees C, that doesn't change.
- Grace period: Configure how many seconds a deviation can last before requiring action.
- Corrective actions: Workflow to document what happened, what was done, and product disposition.
Cold Chain
Monitor the temperature of your refrigeration and freezing equipment with product-specific limits. Detect temperature excursions and record their duration and severity.
- Excursions: When temperature leaves the safe range, it's automatically recorded with duration and peak deviation.
- Auto-resolution: When temperature returns to normal range, the excursion closes automatically.
- Fleet view: Dashboard showing all your cold equipment and current status.
Corrective Actions
Document each corrective action with: description, who took it, product disposition (hold, rework, destroy), and affected batch.
Compliance Reports
Generate daily/weekly HACCP reports and cold chain logs automatically via scheduled reports.
How it connects with the rest of Rela
Food safety is not an isolated module — it integrates into the complete pipeline:
- Your sensors send data via MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus, S7, or HTTP
- The event pipeline receives the data and evaluates it against your CCPs and cold chain limits
- Anomaly detection runs in parallel (statistical) while HACCP evaluates absolute limits
- Notifications (WhatsApp, email) alert the technician immediately
- Tasks are created automatically for intervention
- The audit trail records everything for regulatory compliance
- Scheduled reports generate compliance PDFs automatically
Key benefits
- Sanitary compliance with no manual rounds — data flows from sensors.
- Deviations caught in seconds, not on the next round.
- Immutable audit trail for any surprise inspection.
- Ready reports the health authority accepts — no re-building each time.
- Integrated with the rest of the pipeline (agents, tasks, dashboards) — zero isolated systems.
Advanced Visualizations
Zone heatmap, cascading timeline, and sparklines for detailed visual analysis of plant operations.
HACCP — Verifiable Food-Safety Control
HACCP plans, CCPs with real grace period, corrective actions that create work orders and per-batch chain of custody. Certifiable under SQF / BRC / FSSC 22000.