Resumen en inglés

Today, governments and parties involved in food control are under constant pressure to find a more efficient and effective system to meet established safety standards, which help ensure that the consumer purchases a product suitable for their consumption This has led to the recognition and incursion of hazard analysis and critical control points, with its acronym in English -HACCP- "Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point" as a food surveillance tool based on applying a preventive and anticipatory plan to reach to a final product free of hazards. The objective of this work was to argue by means of a bibliographic review that the application of -HACCP- guarantees the system for the management of safety in the agri-food industries in Colombia by reducing the dangers that are presented within the production line, in addition to highlight the benefits that the design and implementation of the system brings. To meet the objective, a theoretical framework was structured which covered topics such as food hazards, importance of food safety, application of the HACCP system in industries, among others, in order to contextualize the subject and later develop a state of the art in the from which business cases of system application were studied, showing the advantages and benefits obtained once the safety system was applied. Finally, a successful case of the application of the system was described in a company in the dairy sector located in the region. The design and implementation of the HACCP system allows the identification of critical points where strict controls must be applied to avoid contamination of the product and ensure its quality and safety