Handbook of Hygiene Control in the Food Industry

∑ HCA: an area to processcomponents,someof whichhavebeenheat treated to70 ÎC for 2 min,and in whichthereis a risk of contaminat ...

monocytogenes, in finished productand, at the same time, control other contaminationsources.It was recognisedthat the majorsourc ...

∑ staffconcernedwiththe operationof suchequipment; ∑ packagingmaterials; ∑ finished products. There is a philosophy with conside ...

preventthe movementof people,whileinnovativein theirtime,are now seenas hygienehazards (Fig.8.2a). It is virtually impossible to ...

8.4.3 Productdecontamination Freshproduce and the outerpackagingof variousingredientsmayneedto be decontaminatedon entryinto hig ...

8.4.6 Liquidand solidwastes On no account shouldlow-risk liquidor solidwastes be removedfromthe factory via highrisk and attenti ...

∑ A barrier to dividelow-and high-risk floors. Thisis a physicalbarrier suchas a smallwall(approximately60 cm high), whichallows ...

sources(e.g.low-risk production,packing, outside). For high-riskareas, the goal of the air-handlingsystemis to supply suitably f ...

investigatedthe measurementof bothair flowsand airborne microbiological levels in actualfoodfactories, fromwhichcomputational fl ...

the area.The washarea shouldconsistof a holdingarea for equipment,etc., awaiting cleaning, a cleaningareafor manual or automatic ...

Gloveboxes are onlynecessary, of course, if people are involvedin the food production line.If robotsundertookproduct manipulatio ...

8.6 References ANON(1997)Guidelinesfor goodhygienicpracticesin the manufactureof chilledfoods. ChilledFoodAssociation,London. AN ...

9.1 Introduction We will here mainly consider the design of floors intended for greasy and/or wet food processing areas where th ...

whichhas to be properly prepared, or a newone,whichhas to be properly constructed and preparedbeforeapplyingthe flooringin order ...

react witha hardener at ambient temperature,whereas the hydraulicbinders,as cement or lime,needwaterto harden. Hydraulicbinder T ...

resistance. Small aggregates that may be calledfillers have many roles. Amongthoseare reducingshrinkageand increasingthe mechani ...

althoughit is technically possible.The gap mustbe as smallas possible and applicatorsmust wait(for instance around1 to 2 hoursat ...

9.3 Requirementsfor flooringmaterials 9.3.1 Slipresistance In France and the UK, withlittlevariationfromyearto year,around20%of ...

the field(Changet al., 2001).Morerecently,the roughness peakheight, also called mean levelling depth,Rpm, whichis the mean value ...

manygas bubbleholesappears to be, aftercleaning,the most contaminated material of thosehaving beeninserted in the floor of a che ...