Ensuring the safety of your food products starts with maintaining a food-safe environment. Environmental monitoring programs (EMPs) are essential systems for sanitation management and regulatory compliance in every food processing facility, regardless of size or product types. Robust and effective EMPs that continuously monitor for—and help prevent—pathogen contamination start with a structured, risk-based approach. Advanced technology is increasingly playing a role here, too. Risk-informed sampling site selection can be paired with advanced diagnostics and data analytics to inform proactive control strategies. To learn how environmental monitoring best practices, advanced testing technology, and around-the-clock digital solutions help ensure the safe, sanitary operation of your food plant, download your FREE eBook today!

Challenges for Evaluation of Your Environmental Monitoring Program
By Kathy Knutson, Ph.D., Founder, Kathy Knutson Food Safety Consulting LLC

The Importance of Environmental Pathogen Management
By Jack van der Sanden, International Food Safety Consultant, bioMérieux

How to Improve Salmonella Controls to Create an Effective Cronobacter Control Strategy
By Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Food Safety Committee

Sharing is Caring: Leveraging Technology and Collaboration for a Safer Food Supply Chain
By Leo Lowy, Sensor Product Management, Zebra Technologies

Determining Sanitation Effectiveness with a Robust Environmental Monitoring Program
By Janna Hamlett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Idaho Extension

Proactive Monitoring: Moving Beyond the Status Quo
By Stephanie Köhrle, PR & Communications Manager, Hygiena

Keeping Listeria on the Run: Implementing an Effective Monitoring Program
By Michael Cramer, PCQI, former Senior Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance (retired) for Ajinomoto Foods North America