Operations - Making Safe Foods
Sanitation Verification and Run Time Validation
Effective and timely sanitation is critical to ensure hygienic conditions during food manufacturing. Establishing data driven run times (sanitation frequencies) can help to optimize your production while providing hygienic control. Verifying sanitation effectiveness demonstrates compliance and helps establish brackets to segregate production lots.
Food Safety Team eXtended, LLC can help design verification testing procedures for product contact surfaces; and assess line vulnerability and design run time validation studies to ensure microbiological control during operation and help determine sanitation frequencies and any intermediate cleaning steps that may be needed to optimize run time.
Environmental Monitoring
When a Ready To Eat product is exposed prior to packaging, there is a risk for pathogen cross contamination if the process environment is not under proper control. A sound environmental monitoring program (EMP) is required to verify this control. It also serves as a means to detect and eliminate pathogens that could present a public health risk.
Food Safety Team eXtended, LLC can assist in developing or upgrading an existing EMP, hone corrective action plans and vector sampling, help establish tracking and trending strategies, provide on-site EMP training, and provide 3rd party swab-a-thons which are a best practice to ensure program effectiveness.
Root Cause Analysis
Problems arise on occasion and troubleshooting is required to identify the root cause and develop appropriate corrective and preventive actions. This may range from non-compliance to customer specifications, experiencing product spoilage, or even pathogen risks.
Food Safety Team eXtended, LLC can be there to help you work through challenging issues by providing another set of eyes to assess or inspect, review data to date and recommend or conduct additional diagnostic sampling plans, and generate corrective action plans to mitigate.