Why Biofilm Removal Is Critical to Preventing Contamination Recent Salmonella recalls involving shell eggs, produce, and dairy ingredients highlight a growing challenge for food manufacturers: preventing pathogen persistence within the processing environment. Salmonella remains one of the leading causes of foodborne illness and continues to drive costly recalls, regulatory scrutiny, and brand damage across the […]
The strongest food safety programs don’t just maintain cleanliness during production. They use scheduled downtime to get ahead of contamination risks and strengthen facility sanitation before startup. Recent high-profile recalls and outbreak investigations have underscored the importance of proactive pathogen control. Contamination events often begin long before a positive test result, consumer illness or recall […]
What is audit defensibility in food manufacturing? Audit defensibility is a facility’s ability to prove—using documented evidence—that its sanitation program and food safety practices perform as intended. It relies on validated protocols, EPA-registered chemistry and audit-ready documentation to stand up to customer, certification and regulatory audits. What does a defensible sanitation program include? A defensible […]
For food safety and operations teams, audit expectations are rising, and a well-documented sanitation program is now both a compliance requirement and a business advantage. Customer and third-party food safety audits are a regular part of food manufacturing. To consistently pass them, facilities need strong audit defensibility: the ability to prove a sanitation program works […]
It’s the Law — You Can’t Produce Food in a Dirty Plant There is an entire page of the federal food code dedicated to what FDA defines as an “adulterated food,” i.e. a food that can make people sick. Most of the sections and subsections deal with additives (or lack of proper additives) to the […]
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