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  Week 5 Contamination & Cross Contamination Prevention - Allergens • Allergens Allergens is one of my favourite topics and is a very important one. It’s vital to know how to control allergens from raw materials, through storage, to production and labelling. I’m going to explain everything. If there is anything you would like to chat through, please do not hesitate to let me know and we can arrange a call. My contact details are at the bottom of the attached document. What’s coming next…. Week 6  Glass & Hard Plastic,  Metal Control – including metal detection Week 7  Wood Control,  Chemical contamination prevention Allergens – what do you need to show your SALSA auditor? What you need: • Allergen Control Procedure – this can be part of your Contamination & Cross Contamination Procedure and can also include your allergen policy – what you DO NOT PERMIT on site in staff lunches or from visitors or contractors. • Allergen Risk Assessment • Allergen Lab...

  Week 4 Contamination & Cross Contamination Prevention ·          Layout & Flow - Site Plan ·          Meat Species Segregation This is a big section of SALSA as it covers so much. For this reason, I am going to break it down into the following: Week 4 (this week) Layout and flow – site plan Meat Species segregation   Week 5 Allergens – this is always a hot topic, lots to talk about and is so important to fully understand. My favourite topic as I am a little bit of a geek!   Week 6 Glass & Hard Plastic Metal Control – including metal detection   Week 7 Wood Control Chemical contamination prevention   Layout and flow – what do you need to show your SALSA auditor? What you need: Site plan Try to attain a site plan from your landlord, or draw one yourself, either is fine, as long...

Week 3 Cleaning Cleaning of your food or drinks manufacturing site is key for obvious reasons, but how do you manage this effectively? If you have the documents mentioned, you have trained you staff on cleaning and records to monitor, then this will stand you in good stead of getting it right first time! Some sites which are high risk have to go into greater detail when setting up cleaning such as setting up swabbing regimes. If you need help with doing this for the first time, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! Please see the attached file for getting Cleaning for SALSA sussed… Cleaning – what do you need to show your SALSA auditor? What you need:  Cleaning Schedules & Monitoring Records, Cleaning Instructions, COSHH data sheets, Chemical Lists & Evidence of the chemicals being safe for use on food contact equipment and in food environment. Cleaning Schedule List every room or area, surface (walls, floors, tables or prep surfaces) and piece of equipment y...

We've Got SALSA Sussed! Week 2 Personal Hygiene This weeks topic has a bit more content to read through, so I have split it into 3 sections: 1.        PPE / Uniform, Changing & Laundering 2.        Personal Hygiene Rules 3.        Health / Medical Screening / Fitness to Work I have also included information on Coronavirus – what to ask on your health questionnaire, when to ask it, what to do with the answers, and what to think about with regards to social distancing in the work place. There are some really useful links to the government guidelines and information too….. happy reading! Please see the attached file for Personal Hygiene for SALSA sussed… Personal Hygiene – what do you need to show your SALSA auditor? What you need: Personal Hygiene Procedure, Changing Procedure Posters & Health/Medical Screening Record Personal Hygiene is one of the most important parts of ...