Seoul, Korea ¶ Domino’s Pizza Korea, the Korean operation of the world’s largest pizza delivery company, was designated as an HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) company by the Seoul Branch Office of the Korea Food and Drug Administration. This is one of the positive signs that the company has turned around from a crisis in reputation after two employees at a North Carolina outlet were caught performing unsanitary acts a few years ago while making sandwiches there.

HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety that identifies physical, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs measurements to reduce these risks to a safe level. In order to be selected as an HACCP operator, the company must undergo a highly stringent process such as applying an inspection system in each and every sales outlet.

Domino’s Pizza Korea has followed strict self-imposed sanitary rules called the Operations Evaluation Report (OER) with regard to food expiration date management, refrigerator temperature rule compliance, and other sanitary regulations with food items, and utensils. In 2009, the company obtained an ISO 22000 certification, the quality standard dealing with food safety, as the first pizza purveyor in Korea.

Sam Kim (press@whowired.com)