11. Cleaning

Cleaning

Cleaning

  Maintaining clean conditions, together with the correct use of appropriate chemicals, is essential to the control of microbiological and physical contamination of foods.
Effective Cleaning Guidance

Effective Cleaning Guidance

  For cleaning to be effective, hot water, a detergent and some physical effort is needed. Even if a surface looks clean, it may still have many bacteria on it.

The information contained in this publication sets out both the legal requirements that food businesses are expected to comply with as well as good practice. However, it is industry guidance and does not necessarily cover everything that food businesses need to consider