Compressed Air Guide now available

I was taught an idiom when I first started in food safety – “if it is in the business, it is in the food”.

When I say this to clients, they immediately start thinking about contamination and cross contamination. They then start to talk about what they are doing to stop it.

In food factories, few of those I talk to think or do anything about every potential contamination and cross contamination source in their business.

The immediate contamination and cross contamination culprits are poor cleaning, poor pest control, poor handwashing and poor hygiene, including uniforms and contractors.

The one potential contamination and cross contamination source that is not usually considered in food factories is compressed air.

It is used to move things, clean things, as part of the process and in packaging. It is the quiet food safety problem because it is often the things that are right in front of us like compressed air which we see doing it’s thing every day, that we don’t actually see when it comes to food safety.

If the air being used is dirty, the next thing we have contaminated surfaces and product.The air used for compressed air can become dirty through the equipment being used or if it is coming from a poor source.

FoodProcessing.com.au now has a brilliant guide available to assist all food businesses ensure that their compressed air does not become a contamination or cross contamination issue. With the advice this guide contains, you can make sure that compressed air is not the quiet food safety problem of your business.

You can download the guide right here –
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BymVqFfrtUpkdGVJZ0F5NmdCbnM/edit

Written by Rachelle Williams, The Green Food Safety Coach.