Every hazard assessment will highlight the danger of cross contamination as a potential way for microbes to be introduced into products and on to product contact surfaces.
Cross contamination can happen from any number of processes that take place during food manufacture, including cleaning.
Cleaning tools are designed to mechanically remove microbes and other contamination from surfaces but once on the equipment, microbes will try to adhere to it in order to survive. Cleaning the tools is the first step and most effective way to ensure contamination is not transferred, but there are other options which can improve this task.
Food Standards Agency
Hillbrush’s antimicrobial product range addresses both bacterial contamination and cross contamination. All the plastic parts, including the brush fibres and resins, used in our antimicrobial cleaning programme contain an FEIBP approved silver-based additive from Biomaster. This additive decisively interferes with the ability of bacteria, moulds and fungi to reproduce, and used together with standard good housekeeping practices radically reduces or eliminates the chances of microbial contamination and odour by up to 99.99%, when compared with control samples and tested according to accredited ISO 22196:2011 methodology.
The antimicrobial additive starts working immediately and is your second line of defence. The technology is constantly working between cleans and reduces 80% of the bacteria on the product in minutes. It is very important that the cleaning equipment is kept without soil (dirt), as microorganisms can use dirt as a protective barrier against the antimicrobial benefits.
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