Proper sanitation within a food processing plant is key to meeting safety standards. Poor brand reputation due to outbreaks and recalls causes significant challenges to the very best food processing management teams. The problems and solutions are complex … while the fast-changing consumer market demands continually push the limits of manufacturing teams.   

1- Daily in House Sanitation and Labor Shortages

The daily cleaning of food processing plants is technically challenging. The cleaning must be performed daily and often during the overnight/weekend shifts.  Food processing cleaning requires the use of SSOPs (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures), verification of cleaning, and detailed regulatory reporting. 

At times, even the best in house sanitation teams just do not have enough cleaners to perform the daily operation. Employee turnover, vacations, and illness only make the plant sanitation that much harder. 

Sanitation functions can be compromised further budgetary restraints and tight manufacturing timelines. 

2 – Failure to Follow SSOPs (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures)

SSOPs are critical to maintaining the sanitation in your food processing plant. Failure to follow your SSOPs can cause food product contamination by pathogens, consumer illness, product recalls, and public relation disasters. 

3-Inconsistent Hygiene Practices at Food Processor Plants

Cross contamination by improperly trained and unsupervised employees creates an environment for the spread of pathogens in food processing plants.  When GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) are not followed, such as the changing of outer garment/foot wear when working between the raw and RTE(Ready To Eat) areas, pathogens easily spread.

4 – Ineffective Cleaning Procedures and Noneffective Pathogen Control 

Listeria, Salmonella, and E coli spread throughout plants when ineffective cleaning/sanitation procedures are used. Food processing manufacturing is complex. The production floor equipment is extremely advanced and requires detailed daily cleaning/sanitation procedures.  Too often, resources are limited and in house sanitation teams struggle to consistently implement effective sanitation procedures. 

5 – Protecting Brand Reputation

The emergence of foodborne pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella,  E. coli 0157:H7, and Campylobacter have grabbed national media attention and awareness. Companies thrive or die on the reputation of their brand.  Family companies to large corporations are destroyed when their food products cause outbreaks across multiple states, leading to numerous hospitalizations and possibilities of death.  The psychological impacts of recalls on consumers and marketplace can take years to recover. Brands are often compromised by improperly trained employees failing to follow their SSOPs.    

Nightly Cleaning Services

• DBS managed production cleaning

• Implementing your SSOP

• Spartan Sanitation Program

• Train- Validate- Document

• ATP Testing 

• Cost effective monthly rates

• Multi-Level supervised cleaning

• QC inspections of your plants

• Fast corrective actions implemented

• Background checks for security and safety

• Fully insured & simple billing

Our Labor Solutions Include:

• Cost effective labor rates

• Planned scheduled shifts

• On demand requests available

• Uniformed workers 

• Background checks 

• OSHA trained workers

• Fully insured 

• All taxes, workmen’s compensation, unemployment taxes included

• Simple billing – no long term contracts