Sanitation and hygienic design are critical to food safety and are key focus areas in the CFS Preventive Plan Continuum.  While the Continuum has been guiding produce processing plants, there has been less focus on harvesting.

Commercial Food Sanitation | August 2020.   This 40-minute course will take you through the essentials in hygienic conveyor design and how they impact food safety. In this course our Food Safety Specialists cover five topics:   Introduction to Hygienic Conveyor Design Framework Conveyor Carryway – Return Carryway Drive and Idle End Additional Components   […]

FPSA Food Safety Podcast | November 21, 2019 | by Andy Drennan In the second episode, which aired in November 2019, John Butts (Founder and President of Food Safety by Design; and Advisor to the CEO of Land O’Frost) and Joe Stout (President of Commercial Food Sanitation, LLC) shared their thoughts on various state and […]

Hygienic design is a key component of food safety – if equipment or plants cannot be adequately cleaned, food safety is jeopardized. HYGIENIC DESIGN FORWARD is a continuous improvement initiative facilitated by Commercial Food Sanitation to engage and educate processors and equipment manufacturers in order to enhance hygienic design. Efforts are sponsored by Food Service […]

FPSA Food Safety Podcast | October 18, 2019 | by Andy Drennan. In the first episode, which aired in September, 2019, John Butts (Founder and President of Food Safety by Design; and Advisor to the CEO of Land O’Frost) and Joe Stout (President of Commercial Food Sanitation, LLC) discusses food safety and hygienic design with […]

UnitedFresh.com | December 2016 | by United Fresh Produce Association.   A first-of-its-kind meeting of 15 equipment suppliers (each with a sales/marketing as well as a design engineer representative) and 16 fresh cut processors (food safety representative along with operations or engineering representatives), along with several influential buyers, was held September 27 to begin a […]