Dear gthornton,
I think, you mean, the traceability takes 5 minutes.
The mock recall will take longer.
Mock recall includes for example:
- informing director/recall leader;
- getting recall team together (is everybody reachable? are deputies reachable? try to do a recall test, with one of two deputies to find out ,if they also now the procedure)
- decision if it is or is not a recall;
- getting scientifical information to motivate this;
- meanwhile do a traceability and block products;
- getting information of the processes of the infected batch (temperature records, CCP records, incoming good records, loading bills, cleaning records, which staff was working, were they trained)
- fictitious inform authorities (e.g. try to find the page on internet where you have to report, or try if you understand al the question on the digital form provided by your authorities for the case you are dealing with)
- fictitious inform your customers (what would you tell? by mail? by phone? are all the contacts still actual? are the contacts, also the contacts in case of a recall (sometimes these are different persons), do you have 24/7 contacts where needed, etc.)
- and after all that the results of the mock recall has to be evaluated. (What was good? what was not? what took to much time? can we improve this?))
Please note: the goal of a mock recall/ recall test is to train the recall team in performing recalls.
So, the whole recall team needs to be involved in the recall test.
It is like a fire exercise: probably you will never need it, but once in a while you test if all staff know how to get outside when the alarm bells ring.
It is the same for recall exercise: hopefully you will never need it but at least annually you test of the involved people, know what to do on that critical moment.
Traceability is a part of recall.
Nowadays with all the digital ERP systems, traceability (When did I produce it? To whom did I send it? Whit which haulier? Which raw materials/ingredients/packaging did I use? Where did I get these?) may not take much longer than 15 minutes.