Steven Weiland is a corporate microbiologist for Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., a Kieler, Wis.-based member of the Refrigerated Foods Association (RFA). Weiland has more than 10 years of clinical and food microbiology laboratory experience, including isolation/characterization of human pathogens for use in developing and optimizing rapid diagnostic immunoassay test kits.
Microbial hotspots—problem areas or equipment that chronically harbor microbes—are often to blame when a food safety or food quality issue arises in a processing plant. That’s why it’s important for plant managers to address chronic contamination.
