What status does HACCP have internationally?

[From MAFF's meat hygiene enforcement report Jan 2000 - full article from http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/pdf/meat/mher33.pdf]

HACCP is a food safety management system internationally regarded as the most effective approach to preventing food safety problems. The major meat trading countries, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have introduced HACCP-based systems and the EU Commission is developing proposals for HACCP to be the basis of its own food hygiene legislation...

Problems so far with HACCP

The main problems have been company management not following their own HACCP plans and failures in monitoring and record keeping. This is due mainly to a lack of understanding of the principles of HACCP by employees, staff turnover and lack of retraining, and the fact that the sort of record keeping required by HACCP systems was an entirely new concept to many companies, especially smaller plants.