Wheat Allergen Cleaning Validation

Hi all,

We recently got a minor noncompliance in our SQF audit for not having a proper allergen-specific cleaning validation. We handle wheat, soy, and sesame. I read that swab kits like Hygiena Alertox doesn't work on soy sauce and sesame oil, which are our main source of soy and sesame allergens respectively. I also saw that Hygiena has no wheat allergen validation test kit. I don't want to risk doing it with ATP test kit because they're not allergen-specific.

I'm running out of ideas. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me on this. Thank you!

You could swab and send it to a lab for allergen testing. Once you have enough data with negative results, drop the frequency to a minimal. 

Do a risk analysis. Make a point that your sanitation indeed is effective. 

Good luck! 

For wheat - you could use gluten as the protein you are testing for. 

Used to be in the GF biz and used these test kits internally, all GFCO approved.  

https://emportllc.com/

hi ;) 

I would recommend Neogen, but only for verification. Not sure if SQF will accept this one for validation. Alternatively use laboratory ;) 

https://www.neogen.c.../?min=700002591 - Gluten 

https://www.neogen.c...tox-gliadin-r5/ - Gluten 

https://www.neogen.c.../reveal-3d-soy/ - Soy

https://www.neogen.c...x-soy-allergen/ - Soy 

https://www.neogen.c...veal-3d-sesame/ - Sesame 

https://www.neogen.c...esame-allergen/ - Sesame 

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