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Food Safety

Plant sanitation and product safety start with employee hygiene

Come clean

July 8, 2019

Simply put, sanitation starts and ends with employees. How do companies maintain high standards when they likely experience high employee turnover?

Designing meat processing plants for hygiene

Consider food safety at the start of a construction project.

Sam Gazdziak

February 22, 2019

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When it comes time for a processor to renovate or build a new facility, there is excitement in the air. However, as much as one might be tempted to jump into pouring concrete and putting up walls, there are food safety and hygiene considerations that must be made in the design phase.

Meat and Poultry Employee Hygiene Practices Include Wearing Gloves

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Employee hygiene is the key 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.

Richard Mitchell

July 13, 2018

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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.

Supplier's Perspective

Employee hygiene training: Rinse and repeat for best results

Laura Dunn Nelson

July 5, 2018

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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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Convenience aids employee hygiene

Elizabeth Fuhrman

July 11, 2017

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Several common methods for maintaining employee cleanliness exist. One crucial method is that processors have easily accessible and common locations for handwashing and as well as donning and doffing PPE.

Frequent handwashing is an important employee hygiene practice that can help prevent the transmitting of bacteria

Food Safety

Employee hygiene: Bring them back to basics

With employee hygiene a key variable in the creation and spread of contaminants, training programs that educate workers on best practices can reduce food safety threats.

Richard Mitchell

July 11, 2016

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Meat and poultry plant workers, along with supermarket meat department staffers, are having a major influence on the state of food safety.

Clean through hygiene

It is crucial for employees to actually buy in and understand the significance of employee hygiene; here are some strategies to accomplish that goal.

Tim Biela

July 15, 2015

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Recall after recall, there are indications that employee hygiene and good manufacturing practices are not being followed and companies are not leveraging their most powerful tools, their employees, to control the process and prevent these events.

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Paying close attention to employee hygiene

July 10, 2014

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Employee hygiene might seem like common sense, but the issue cannot be taken lightly

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Preventing ‘shortcuts’ in employee hygiene practices

Advanced hygiene stations ensure employee compliance with sanitation procedures.

September 23, 2013

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In food safety, the stakes are high. If a food processor doesn’t take a proactive food-safety stance, and then experiences a recall due to E. coli or Salmonella, it could put the company out of business.