Cleaning tool maintenance 

Looking after your Remco and Vikan cleaning tools

The cleaning and maintenance of your cleaning tools are essential for ensuring food safety. This is recognised in Global Food Standard FSSC 22000, which requires that validated cleaning and sanitising programmes be established to ensure that cleaning equipment is cleaned and/or sanitised in accordance with a defined schedule (Clause 11.3). 

Clause 11.2 also stipulates that a preventive and corrective maintenance programme is in place for cleaning and sanitising tools. These are the kind of things you will normally need to consider when cleaning your cleaning equipment. However, any cleaning and maintenance programme you adopt should be based on a concrete risk assessment.