Introduction
Irish food guidelines demand that treatment, cookery, manufacturing, packaging of food products is executed hygienically, with clean equipment in sanitary premises. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland regulates the food industry and assesses how they comply with these guidelines. To assist in the design of safe and sanitary equipment, the European Union has issued several guidelines to be followed. In collaboration with Food Safety Authority, the summaries of the instructions are documented in this report. This report explains the standards and principles for the sanitary layout of machinery planned for the manufacturing of food products.
Objectives
The report’s primary objective is to prevent microorganism contamination of products. The report is anticipated to review processing plant operational standards and evaluate the conditions of food manufacturing with the extra requirements of hygienic manufacturing to guarantee the microbiological security of the final products. Improving an old design to achieve hygiene obligations can be extremely costly and may be ineffective because these improvements are most successfully implemented into the preliminary layout stage. The long-standing advantages of implementing safety standards do not only comprise food safety but as well amplified life expectancy of machinery, low maintenance cost, and lower operating charges.
Summary
This report highlights the importance to discover the origins of micro-organisms that may infect food in the processing process and deciding which disinfectant agents are acceptable for use. The report elucidates several aspects of disinfection agents such as their suitability, application, and fitness. This report details the method for evaluating which disinfection agent is applicable in which processing surface and whether food manufacturing equipment used for sanitary operation, is resistant to bacteria.
Methodology
This report is arranged in a coherent and readable manner. It contains small, clear, and well-explained topics that cover various aspects of food processing plant hygiene. It is imperative that the hygienic conditions of any food manufacturing plant are tested to ensure that the food products manufactured in that plant are safe for human consumption. Additionally, the hygienic conditions of the plant machinery should be evaluated to ensure that food products processed are free from any micro-organism contamination. This report explains the benefits of an effective sanitation program that ensures the organization’s sanitation policy is strictly adhered to. Some significant aspects of an efficient sanitation program include applicability and a good well-planned system.
Discussion and Conclusion
By applying the universal standards for the hygienic design of equipment identified in this report, this document demonstrates the application of these standards in the building and zoning of food factories. This fundamentally calls for factory premises to be planned, built, and preserved in a way that will facilitate the proper processing flow and that will avoid the chances of pollution risks such as microbiological, chemical, or dust contamination. Attention is drawn for consumers to be vigilant and stakeholders in the food industry to follow the operational guidelines outlined in this report.
References
The references concentrate on several processing hygiene conditions and examine the proper layout of the food processing equipment and the hygienic practices to keep the factory in a sanitized state.
Review of Report 2
Introduction
This report on food processing plant hygiene includes processing operational conditions, the layout of food manufacturing plant equipment, and a variety of hygienic practices required to maintain the plant in its optimum hygiene condition. This is one among a series of reports, which go beyond plant design and covers disinfection agents, organization of sanitation programs, and plant layout and segregation requirements.
Objectives
In this report on food manufacturing hygiene, proper sanitation practice is described, and HACCP and other safety guidelines recommended as one of the most significant requirements for safe food processing. This document also explains other important requirements that regulate food safety and hygiene in the processing factories, including processing factory environmental requirements and quality mechanisms such as ISO 9000.
Methodology
It is significant that the factory design bears in mind aspects influencing the sanitary operation and cleanability of the factory. The danger of contamination of products during open manufacturing rises with the increase of micro-organisms in the processing surfaces and their chance to breed in badly designed equipment. This necessitates the report to discuss the importance of segregation requirements in a processing factory. This denotes that the sanitation of several zones of processing factories, environmental provisions, plus proper equipment layout, have an imperative impact on hygienic performance.
According to numerous specialists, the layout of the food manufacturing factories and their facilities is significantly vital to the attainment and safeguarding of optimum hygiene in the factories. The modern designs for food manufacturing factories take into consideration several aspects concerning optimum hygiene, for example, the plant design, building materials, drainage, and base layout as well as the type of equipment to be established in the factory. Another accepted way documented by the report concerning the maintenance of sanitation measures in food manufacturing factories is through regular disinfection. The report describes several generally applied disinfectants in food manufacturing plants such as chlorine elements, perozygen, and ammonium compounds.
Discussion and Conclusion
Maintenance of hygiene in the food manufacturing factories is a vital requirement for ascertaining the safety and quality of the foods. This report has proven that food production factory hygiene can be attained through efficient factory layout, preservation of high values of hygiene all over the factory premises as provided for by HACCP and other safety guidelines, and maintaining different hygienic practices required for optimum hygiene standards.
References
The references used in the report are appropriate, up to date, and readily accessible. They extend to various sanitation elements and aspects of manufactured food products. They also outline various Irish operational guidelines about food processing plant hygiene.