TRSA Announces Hygienically Clean Certification for Food Safety
TRSA--a textile service industry association--has developed a certification program for laundries serving the food manufacturing and processing sectors. The Hygienically Clean Food Safety program will emphasize best practices for laundry processes and quality control practices verified through facility inspection and microbial testing of reusable textiles.
Laundry practices verified include washing procedures (detergent formulas, temperature, disinfectant, pH, extraction), drying, garment inspection and transportation. A certified laundry plant must follow an operational flowchart that maps these procedures as well as pickup, unloading and sorting of soiled items and sorting of clean laundry. Employees’ use of personal protective equipment must be documented.