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Environmental monitoring is a process used in food processing facilities that assesses how effectively the plant is being cleaned. This typically means swabbing various surfaces for pathogens and performing a lab analysis of these samples.
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Is CEA being oversold?

Is CEA Being Oversold?

Eric Wilhelmsen, Ph.D., C.F.S.
February 1, 2022

Controlled Environment Agriculture is being touted as safer, fresher, and more nutritious, but no fresh produce operation is without hazards.


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Testing to Continue to Increase in 2021

Environmental monitoring and a focus on continuous improvement in sanitation drive increases in test volumes
Bob Ferguson
April 15, 2021

As food processors continue to recover from 2020, we wanted to find out more about their plans for 2021. One thing was clear: Testing—especially environmental monitoring—will continue to grow at a rapid pace.  


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How and Why Environmental Monitoring Programs Add to the Bottom Line

Jeffrey L. Kornacki Ph.D.
February 26, 2021

Environmental monitoring programs, when performed properly, can reduce the price of nonconformance, adding to a food processor’s bottom line.    



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Getting Sanitation Out of the Reclean/Retest Rut

Wendy White M.Sc.
April 16, 2020
Food companies and regulators have become increasingly vigilant for environmental pathogens in manufacturing facilities, with problems triggering swab-a-thons and even recalls.
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Food Safety Priorities and Plans for 2020 – Part 2

Bob Ferguson
February 20, 2020
Part 2 of what processors expect to focus on in the year 2020.  
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Estimating the Cost of Environmental Monitoring

February 18, 2020
Are you required to perform environmental monitoring under the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Preventive Controls for Human Food rule? It depends.
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Strategies for Organizing Environmental Monitoring Data for Optimal Trending and Root-Cause Analysis

Christopher M. Showalter Eva Zaring Nancy Dobmeier CQA, CHA
December 16, 2019
Trending environmental monitoring data can help with a root-cause analysis to uncover the origins of the positive finding and may inform the mitigation strategy.
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Keys to Effective Monitoring for Listeria

Samuel D Alcaine
August 20, 2019
For ready-to-eat food processors, developing and implementing pathogen environmental monitoring programs are important parts of their sanitation controls.
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Post-Sanitation Microbiology Sampling

Weber Scientific.com
February 20, 2019
The MegaSampler, a sponge on a stiff plastic rod, does an excellent job of sampling both large and small surfaces in the food production facility with minimal effort.  
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Collecting and Interpreting Multi-site ATP Testing Data

Neogen
February 20, 2019
Sanitation verification systems using ATP are standard methods for evaluating and monitoring sanitation efficacy at food production and foodservice organizations.
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On Demand: This webinar will present recent research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison demonstrating this ATP-depletion phenomenon and how processors can guard against such false negative assessments.

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