Tips for monitoring Listeria in food plants include acknowledging that Listeria is a pervasive microorganism that finds harborage in unlikely places.

Preventive maintenance is an area where a well-documented program can provide a company not just with significant cost savings but also with data for future savings.

Microbiological cross-contamination has been a contributing factor to several well-documented outbreaks of foodborne illness.

The trucking industry has never had a more timely opportunity to play its part in implementing and improving delivery control systems for temperature-sensitive goods.

Today’s food plant pest control programs should be effective, fully documented and automated.

Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures are instructive, directive and are written to contain actions around a task—likely intended to fulfill a policy’s requirements.  

All edible portions of field and orchard crops are affected by an assortment of pests that must be managed for food safety.  

In the food industry, chemicals are routinely used to sanitize and disinfect product contact surfaces.

The food industry and government have long been aware of the persistence of Listeria in the environment and in processing plants.  

When growth exceeds destruction by cleaning and disinfection, microorganisms inevitably become persistent and form biofilms.