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January 21, 2020

Beef harvest plants are known to use a lot of water for sanitation programs.


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Employee Washing Hands
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Plant sanitation and product safety start with employee hygiene

Come clean
Megan Pellegrini
Megan Pellegrini
July 24, 2019
Simply put, sanitation starts and ends with employees. How do companies maintain high standards when they likely experience high employee turnover?
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First Full Line of “Hand Sanitizing Door Handles” Now Available for Restaurants, Bars, Hotels, Buildings, etc.

OpenClean Technologies announces world's first hand sanitizing door handles

April 18, 2019

OpenClean Technologies today announced that the world’s first hand sanitizing door handles that easily integrate with or replace existing restroom door handles to make hand sanitization easy, intuitive and accessible, are now available.


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Meat and Poultry Employee Hygiene Practices Include Wearing Gloves
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Employee hygiene is the key to meat and poultry safety

High on hygiene: Employee buy-in on hygienic measures is critical for minimizing the spread of pathogens in meat and poultry plants.
Rich Mitchell
Richard Mitchell
July 13, 2018
Workers hold the key to meat and poultry safety. The inability of plant employees to follow such hygienic practices as proper hand washing and wearing sanitized personal protective equipment can lead to contamination, the spread of foodborne illness, reduction in product shelf life and product recalls.
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Employee hygiene training: Rinse and repeat for best results

Laura Dunn Nelson
July 5, 2018
Employee hygiene is a leading cause of food safety incidents, costing the industry billions, and damaging public health and brand image.
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Food Safety Summit Press Releases

The Handwashing for Life Olympics: Using Gamification to Inspire High-Level Compliance

Food safety professionals can experience the power of handwash gamification at the 2018 Food Safety Summit.
April 9, 2018
Food safety professionals gathering for the 2018 Food Safety Summit, May 7-10 in Rosemont, IL, will have the unique opportunity to experience the power of handwash gamification in reducing the risk of brand-damaging outbreaks and costly recalls.
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When human behavior clashes with food safety goals

Yaohua Feng, of Purdue Food Science, talks about why companies need to account for irrational human behavior when implementing food safety procedures.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
March 29, 2018
When Yaohua Feng, an assistant professor at Purdue Food Science, observes home cooks, 64 percent of them don’t wash their hands before making a meal — and that’s when they know they’re being watched. And unfortunately, employees at processing facilities aren’t always much better.
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Develop the best plan for food safety and hygiene training

Training for equipment operations and maintenance is important to FSMA
Timothy Rugh
March 14, 2018

Personnel training is one of the cornerstones of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Under the Preventive Controls rules, employee training is now mandatory for both human food and animal food manufacturers.


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Intelligent sanitary design

Sanitary design best practices for snack and bakery facility construction

Design and build firms continue to refine current best practices for peak sanitary design for snack and bakery facilities.
Doug peckenpaugh
Douglas Peckenpaugh
March 5, 2018

Best practices for the design of snack and bakery facilities, whether building new construction or renovating an existing building, have undergone a significant evolution in recent years.


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How food processors can fight cross-contamination

Processors must have a detailed plan and execute it properly to prevent big problems.
Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
February 21, 2018
To prevent cross-contamination in your plant, you have to consider every single step in the chain and do everything you can to ensure that none of the links are weak.
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