Joseph M. Stout is interviewed to provide an industry perspective on the general sanitation principles and practices at work in today’s food manufacturing operations.

Although the cleaning and sanitizing of a food production operation go hand in hand, the verification of the effectiveness of the latter step has received increasing attention recently.

This article introduces the Sanitation column to Food Safety Magazine as an important aspect of food safety.

Water is is sprayed, injected, dripped, poured, ladled and conveyed through food processing establishments around the world.