With today’s food safety requirements, it is more important than ever to properly design and implement a contamination prevention plan that covers all critical control points in your process like food flooring sanitation guidelines. But, are you presenting your well-designed HACCP plan as a marketing and sales tool? Highlighting, or marketing, your contamination prevention processes ... Read more
Is Your Food Safety Focus on Prevention? The Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), passed in 2011, is the biggest revision  of the food safety system since the first national law was enacted over a century ago. These new rules and food flooring sanitation procedures seek to create a preventive, food safety system that is ... Read more
Regular cleaning of your food manufacturing plant is a mandatory part of your sanitation program.  It’s a major investment of time and money. And, you probably feel that you are doing everything you can to control contamination and meet your food flooring sanitation standards. Contamination Risks Are Always Present in Your Facility. Controlling bacteria is ... Read more
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011 changed the emphasis from responding to food safety issues to proactively preventing them with food safe flooring. This shift created a preventative approach to sanitation and a significant demand for products that could inhibit the growth of mold, mildew and other dangerous microbes. Both FDA and USDA ... Read more
  Understand What Your Floor Needs The most obvious answer to this question is to stress the importance of working with a polymer flooringexpert to recommend, specify and properly install the correct concrete coating or resurfacing system to address their unique performance requirements to ensure there is no concrete contamination. Proper floor and wall coating ... Read more
What does antimicrobial flooring have to do with the food and beverage industry? If you’re a food production or processing facility, it could mean a great deal. That’s because food contamination outbreaks caused by unsanitary conditions in a food production facility can cause illnesses, resulting in recalls and sometimes fines or penalties as well as major ... Read more
Water. Barley. Hops. Yeast. These are the basic ingredients of beer. Craft brewers are precise, passionate and innovative craftsmen who labor over these raw ingredients to create beloved (and quite tasty) brews for the rest of us to enjoy – and enjoy them we do! In 2014, craft beer sales were up 17.6 percent and ... Read more
Microbes are the enemy if you manage food and beverage processing, and in any work that touches on the medical or pharmaceutical field. A clean environment is the starting point for providing safe products and services. Keeping your floors and walls sanitary and free of health risks is essential for your company reputation and the ... Read more