Happy New Year Everyone;
We are fish processing company and have just had an SQF certification audit and have this non-conformance raised for chlorine concentration of our food contact sanitizer is too low at 50ppm.
In our SOP, we are using 50-100ppm concentration during processing for our equipment such as knifes or bandsaw squeegee that are on standby to be used throughout processing so instead of putting them directly on racks or in bins, we thought it would be more effective to have them placed in our equipment bin of 50-100ppm.For our overnight sanitise soaking of aprons/gloves etc. we use 100-200ppm.
I do not have technical sheet for chlorine that stated how much needed for sanitizing food contact surfaces and therefore this was raised as a minor conformance stating that this is too low.
Does anyone have Sodium Hypochlorite 10-15% techinical data sheet that stated required concentrations for certain sanitising? or any USFDA, or WHO guide on chorine food contact sanitiser
Thank you in advance.