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How Do You Ensure That Your Food Processing Plant Is Clean?
It is vital to keep your food-handling plant clean to ensure food is free from any physical, chemical, allergenic, or microbial contamination. Choose which areas to monitor based on your cleaning schedules and HACCP risk assessment, and routinely check their cleaning efficacy. You can verify if your cleaning team is doing an excellent job, by using sterile Swabs, to check the cleaned surfaces. However, before you take your Swabs, read the instructions on your Swabs packaging carefully and wear disinfected gloves to avoid cross-contamination. Thereafter, submit the Swab samples for analysis to a laboratory. After you get your results, compare the cleaning efficacy calculated by the laboratory with the one you set for your processing plant. To consider your food processing plant clean, the cleaning efficacy calculated by the laboratory should be equal to or higher than your targeted percentage. In case of negative Swab results, reclean the non-conforming areas thoroughly, re-sample the same areas, and re-submit for analysis. Let IFAC assist you with implementing a suitable Cleaning Plan and Cleaning Verification Program for your Facility whilst you take care of business.