Hygienic zoning plays a vital role in minimizing the risk of cross contamination within a food processing facility. Its primary objective is to protect the facility from the entry of …

Welcome to The Wash, your trusted resource for the latest and greatest in public health and hygiene, where we will tackle topics like hand hygiene, best practices in footwear sanitization, …

What is a Captive Footwear Program? A captive footwear program is truly the precipice of great footwear hygiene practices at any organization. “Captive” or “Zoned” footwear is a subcategory of …

The importance of hygiene in food processing has been thrust to the forefront of organizational processes and procedures in light of the recent pandemic. However, for food manufacturing and packaging …

Now that you’ve created a food safety culture, it’s time to discuss how to maintain and reinforce this new culture at your facility. These three areas of reinforcement can help …

This is the third article in our continued discussion about food safety culture plans, you can read the other posts here: 1. What is a food safety culture? 2. What …

Welcome to the second post in Meritech's continuing series on food safety culture! The previous post discussed the importance of building a food safety culture into your organization. This time, …

Welcome to The Wash, your trusted resource for the latest and greatest in public health and hygiene, where we will tackle topics like hand hygiene, best practices in footwear sanitization, …

Unquestionably, food safety is a primary focus for every food manufacturer. However, while a lot of effort is put into food safety processes and procedures, many of these don’t account …

Welcome to The Wash, your trusted resource for the latest and greatest in public health and hygiene, where we will tackle topics like hand hygiene, best practices in footwear sanitization, …