Personal digital assistants PDA , palm-held auditing tools with appropriate software, or smartphones are available to capture data electronically. They simplify the whole process and can incorporate data from microbiological or rapid testing. Data in an electronic form are far more useful and usable than those in paper reports. Other advantages include greater consistency, overall time savings, and greater usability of data for analyzing trends and designing corrective strategies. These become even more powerful if combined with cross-contamination audits, which are broader in scope, and used to assess the overall risk or potential for cross-contamination.
The latter assess more than just cleaning, and include personal hygiene, facilities available, for example, hand-washing and drying, traffic, and personnel flow. Monitoring surface cleanliness is not without costs but these need to be considered in relation to the costs associated with failing to monitor Fig. Given the cost of cleaning and the expenditure in time, effort, and money that some companies put into surface sampling it is surprising that more use is often not made of the results.
This can be a powerful management tool and be used as part of a statistical process control approach. Results to look for are outliers—Is this a test anomaly or can some other event explain the difference? Is there a consistent change in results—Has a new cleaning chemical or methods been used?
Are higher results being obtained at certain intervals, for example, different shift? Are trends showing a drift toward going out of control? The results of environmental surface testing can also be linked to food end-product counts, staff rotas, shift patterns, etc.
Cumulatively this can help to maximize cleaning and ensure monitoring is as cost-effective as possible—maximum effectiveness for minimum cost. Cleaning costs money and cleaning needs to deliver, otherwise it is a waste of money and time. Monitoring cleaning efficacy should therefore be part of the work of any food business and if undertaken appropriately can be cost-effective, providing greater confidence in food safety and superior product shelf-life, and in most food manufacturing is likely to increasingly involve an integrated testing approach.
The market for rapid testing in the food industry is predicted to further increase especially as they become faster, better, and cheaper Weschler, with increasing use of rapid methods at the expense of more traditional ones.
Factors influencing this include allergen concerns, the increased importance of cross-contamination, the cost of recalls due to contaminated product, as well as other factors. This has coincided with the emergence of a number of pathogens with a low infectious dose.
Therefore the need for surface testing as a means to assess cleaning efficiency has increased and will further increase due to its proactive potential to ensure food does not become contaminated in the first place as opposed to end-product testing, which tells you something may or may not have happened.
Tests for surface cleanliness will evolve to meet changing requirements in how they are used, how they can be integrated into an holistic approach, considered in relation to developments in legislation, reference values, audit standards, and other needs. An always important factor is cost, especially as the extent of testing needs to be reviewed in relation to the benefits that can be achieved.
Such analyses Fig. Cleaning should deliver value, that is, clean surfaces in relation to cost and risk. For food service, which currently does little testing, the future is likely to be the introduction of very easy to use, low-cost, noninstrument tests. Changes in test methods are likely to be driven by versatility, speed, specificity, sensitivity, and cost, along with more sophisticated foolproof software. More innovative approaches are likely in the design of flexible agar contact systems, suitable for use on irregular-shaped surfaces.
More rapid microbiological tests will be developed. This may be in isolation or in combination with tests for the presence of specific pathogens. The ability to detect lower levels of ATP has developed over recent years with, depending upon the reagents and how they are produced, the ability to detect below 1 fmol of ATP. ATP or microbiological tests, specific and sensitive enough to detect very low levels of bacteria or ATP, even in dry conditions, could be developed.
New formats, other than swabs, may be devised. Currently, no rapid test is well-suited for testing surfaces that are high in fats, and tests specific for fats and oils would be useful for some processors. Molecular techniques are likely to be become even more specific, lower in cost, more rapid, and more widely used.
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Abstract Cross-contamination is an increasingly important risk factor in food safety. Keywords: Surface sampling, ATP, microbiological testing, monitoring cleanliness, environmental contamination.
Introduction Open in a separate window. Figure Table Case Study 1. Case Study 2. Phenotypic and molecular typing of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from the processing environment and products of a sandwich-producing plant. Outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections associated with pasteurised milk from a local dairy—Massachusetts, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 57 40 , — Managing Cleaning and the Role of Surface Sampling Introduction Fig.
Cleaning Protocols and Regimens Designing a cleaning regimen is best undertaken as the result of a site survey. Stage Function Reason 1 Preclean Remove loose food or dirt, scrape, vacuum, etc. Improve efficiency of later stages, allows detergent access to more firmly adhering residues Rinse with water to remove smaller, soluble food particles 2 Main clean Removes more firmly adhering food residue, grease or dirt Improves efficiency of later stages.
Prevents microorganisms being redeposited on surfaces 4 Disinfect Further reduction in the number of microorganisms Minimizes risk of cross-contamination, increases product shelf-life and safety 5 Final rinse Removes traces of disinfectant Minimizes risk of disinfectant contaminating the food 6 Dry Air dry or use disposable materials to minimize recontamination Residual moisture provides an opportunity for any remaining microorganisms to grow and survive and increase the risk of cross-contamination transfer rates 7 Additional Optional terminal disinfection Ozone, hydrogen peroxide vapor, chlorine dioxide Used as additional disinfection step to try to eliminate any residual or persistent pathogens or spoilage organisms.
Surface Sampling and Assessing Cleanliness: An Introduction Cleaning is the removal of soil and this process may also reduce the number of microorganisms present. Nonmicrobiological Surface Sampling Visual Assessment Visual assessment still has an important role to play in cleaning assessment but as part of an integrated assessment protocol see Section Schematic representation of the ATP bioluminescence reaction.
Microbiological Surface Sampling Introduction Microbiological surface sampling cannot be described as new, with reports of its use going back to the s and s Saelhof and Heinekamp, , Krogg and Dougherty, , although precise methodological details are lacking. Methods Advantages Disadvantages Swabbing Widely used and accepted Can be qualitative types of organisms and semiquantitative Any shape, size, or surface area can be tested. Newer short time bioluminogenic tests with minimal equipment requirements now available No universally agreed protocol Methods, media, etc.
Staff with some microbiological training needed Poor recovery especially dry surfaces. Ashford, Public Health Laboratory Service. Guidelines for reviewing microbiological control and monitoring programs, part B55, attachment 2. In: Meat and Poultry Inspection Manual. Microbiological safety assurance applied to smaller catering operations world-wide. Food Control 10, — The Swedish Statute Book.
Integrated Assessment Protocols It must be recognized that developing a monitoring protocol or strategy is pointless if cleaning itself is poorly implemented and managed. Surface not part of documented cleaning schedule Often occurs with hand-contact surfaces. Failure to color code. Obtaining and Using Results Any overall policy to ensure clean surfaces should include monitoring surface cleanliness. Use ATP or equivalent method. Prevents unnecessary cleaning and informs when it is necessary.
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