Excellence in food safety for meat and poultry, from the farm to the processing plant, encompasses a number of steps to eliminate threats like Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, foreign material, and spoilage organisms that prematurely limit shelf life.
Do engaged, informed, and empowered sanitation teams act as a predictor of success for an integrated pest management (IPM) program? With excellent food safety risk management behaviors, a frontline sanitation team can help manage existing risks and identify new ones, dramatically reducing the potential of product contamination due to pest activity in a facility. This article describes an action plan to help achieve these goals.