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Plastic film manufacturer environmental and microbial swab?

Started by Callmecern, Oct 14 2024 11:52 PM
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Posted 14 October 2024 - 11:52 PM

We are a plastic film manufacturer that makes the bags that bulk raw meat will get put into. To satisfy the standard do we have to do atp swabs on the rollers on our machine or do we have to do any testing at all? We use no water, the plastic is heated up to 350+ degrees. Not sure what we actually have to do to pass this audit.


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Posted Yesterday, 04:32 AM

What kind of audit would that be? You did not mention


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Posted Yesterday, 06:23 AM

Hi Callmecern,

 

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ATP swabs are good for food contact surfaces but I’m not sure how much benefit you will get from using them on the packaging contact surfaces of your machines.

 

An inspection and period micro swabbing should be sufficient given the intended use is bags for raw meat. Basic Micro swabs would be TVC, Y&M & Enteros.

 

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Posted Yesterday, 02:33 PM

This will be for an AIB audit and then in the next year we hope to also get our SQF 


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