Cleaning is an essential part of the overall management measures within the HACCP plan. Yet it occasionally goes wrong. A major - and often understudied - cause is: incorrect design, combined with a lack of serious validation. Recent outbreaks and changes in detection techniques are prompting more attention to machine design and cleaning. We discuss it with NVWA inspectors Coen van der Weijden and Coen Graven.
Machine design, a source of contamination?
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