White Paper: Selection, Care, and Maintenance Guide for Food Contact Tools and Equipment

In food processing, properly maintaining and cleaning your tools is vital for assuring a sanitary processing facility. Properly selecting and using the right tools and equipment for each assigned task is also key to success, as well as the ongoing care, cleaning, and maintenance of those tools and equipment.

Vikan has developed a guide to the proper selection, care, and maintenance of food contact tools and equipment to assist food processors in considering the related aspects of such equipment. Since hygienic cleaning is a necessary step in maintaining an efficient, clean, and code-compliant processing facility, the proper tools, cleaning, and storage methods, and maintenance practices must be utilized to assure the highest level of integrity.

This guide will help you to:

1. Identify features that contribute to the hygienic design of food contact tools such as shovels, brushes, scrapers, pails, and more.
2. Learn the basics about proper hygienic storage that contributes to sanitary conditions instead of creating more potential risk.
3. Better understand the industry standards regarding the proper cleaning of food contact equipment and tools.
4. Recognize the signs that it is time to replace food contact tools.

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