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If your job in the food industry is plant inspection, here are some lessons from one who’s been there.

Sanitation is in fact the most important function that will happen in every single factory, packinghouse, deli, or restaurant every single day.

While a great number of manufacturers take a reactive approach to maintenance, preventive maintenance can improve performance, control costs, maximize uptime, and maintain critical equipment.

Air handling in food manufacturing factories is quite different from air handling in commercial or residential environments.

As the food production environment should not be a source of biological, chemical or physical contamination, the different steps to mitigate those risks will be examined in terms of hygienic zoning.

The most critical Good Manufacturing Practice requirement for packaging materials is that they be suitably pure for their intended use.

Food production facilities, grocery retail locations and restaurants are at risk for attracting pests, as they have the ideal conditions for pests to thrive: food, water and shelter.

Routine cleaning is typically focused on product contact surfaces, areas adjacent to product contact surfaces that require minimal disassembly and the immediate environment.

In the course of foodborne listeriosis outbreak investigations, a breakdown in plant sanitation is frequently cited as the root cause.

New 3A® ATP Technology offers better verification of effective sanitation and is an improvement over conventional tests.