Maintaining a clean and sanitary environment in food processing plants is crucial for ensuring food safety and quality. As you evaluate your SSOPs for environmental areas, here are some important things to start and stop for optimal results: Dos Thoroughly Rinse All Food Contact Surfaces Before applying foam, make sure to rinse all food […]
Category: Biofilm Control
Floor Scrubber Dos and Don’ts: Keeping Your Facility Clean and Product Safe
Floor scrubbers play a crucial role in maintaining a safe and hygienic environment. However, they are often ironically overlooked and neglected. Here are some essential dos and don’ts for using floor scrubbers effectively to minimize the risk of cross-contamination and ensure a clean food processing facility. Hygienic Zoning and Pathogen Migration Do: Implement hygienic zoning […]
10 Places to Find Biofilm In Pork Plants
Improving Food Safety in Pork Processing Protecting human health, minimizing food loss and food waste, and reducing equipment damage are top priorities for all food manufacturers, but protein processors face the most challenges when it comes to eliminating pathogens such as E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria. A variety of factors such as incoming pathogen loads […]
A microbial positive in your drain. Now what?
Finding a positive drain swab above your identified threshold when you are ready to start production is not how you want to start your day. As you work to identify the root cause of the issue, here are 3 things to evaluate and address in a Corrective Action Plan for floor drain cleaning and sanitation. […]
Top 3 Mistakes in Your Floor Drain Cleaning Program
For years, sanitation crews have been manually cleaning floor drains in food manufacturing facilities. What if we said there is a way to better protect your product from contamination, while saving time and labor? Here are three common mistakes in floor drain cleaning: Manual Scrubbing Drains create the ideal environment for biofilm to grow and […]
Are Biofilms Costing Your Operation?
Four Ways Biofilm Impacts Operational Efficiency Biofilm is a major concern to the food industry. Its invisibility and therefore lack of easy detection on food and non-food contact surfaces often leaves food processors uncertain over its presence or absence — especially when an unexpected microbial problem strikes an operation. Addressing microbial positives can be one […]