Cleaning tool maintenance

The correct maintenance of cleaning tools is essential to minimise the risk of microbial, allergen, and foreign body cross-contamination.

Chemical resistant

Vikan colour-coded cleaning tools are tested and approved for use with the most common types of food industry detergents, disinfectants and sanitisers, when used according to the chemical manufacturers’ recommendations for time, temperature and concentration exposure.

Autoclave safe

Vikan colour-coded cleaning tools easily withstand the autoclave temperatures and times normally used to achieve microbial sterilisation.

Looking after your Vikan cleaning tools

The cleaning and maintenance of your cleaning tools are essential for ensuring food safety. Any cleaning and maintenance programme you adopt should be based on a concrete risk assessment.

Important notice

Be sure to clean, disinfect and sterilise a Vikan cleaning tool as appropriate before using it for the first time.

Help is available

The Vikan ‘Optimising food safety through good cleaning tool maintenance’ white paper provides you with a lot of practical information and advice about the best ways to look after manual cleaning tools used in the food industry in order to optimise food safety, and make it easier for you to comply with global food safety requirements.

Download the whitepaper “Cleaning tool maintenance” here.