Food Equipment Safety: Why Food-Related Businesses Should Monitor Their Cutting Boards

October 20, 2017

Food-related businesses must place food safety as a priority in their daily operations, including the equipment that they utilise to prepare their various edible items or dishes. Sadly, some of these businesses overlook the importance of monitoring their cutting boards to ensure that they are sanitary each time one of the staff members uses them. While these boards may look clean, they may still harbour bacteria under certain conditions. Below, we illustrate why you need to monitor these boards closely to ensure food equipment safety in your facility.

Monitoring Cutting Boards Prevents Cross Contamination

You can prevent cross-contamination by monitoring how the staff members use cutting boards. One easy method to accomplish this is by colour coding your boards. Polyethylene boards come in a wide variety of colours that enables you to allot green for vegetables, red for raw meat and brown for cooked meat for just three examples.

Watching Over the Cleanliness of Your Cutting Boards Guarantees That the Staff Is Sanitising Them Properly

Each day you need to ensure that your staff members are washing and sanitising the cutting boards thoroughly enough to remove all bacteria from them. Polyethylene ones are dishwasher safe and the machine will perform both actions effectively. If your facility does not have a dishwasher, your workers need to wash the boards with soap and water to remove the debris, but also they need to sanitise them with a bleach solution or commercial sanitiser and then rinse them with warm water. When you are dealing with wood cutting boards, though, they require a quaternary ammonium solution for sanitising. With both types of cutting boards, dry them thoroughly after sanitising them.

Inspecting Cutting Boards Catches Knife Grooves That Can Harbour Bacteria

Periodically, you need to inspect each of your cutting boards for knife grooves. While it is normal for them to contain marks from cutting on them daily, if the marks become too deep, the grooves can harbour bacteria even with thoroughly cleaning and sanitising. Luckily today, there are methods for reconditioning these boards to extend their lifespan. When they are too worn, you will need to replace them.

Rely on Cutting Board Services for further facts about the importance on monitoring your cutting boards in your food-related business. We provide mobile reconditioning services for your boards along with new polyethylene boards when you require replacements. Our boards are high quality, come in a variety of colours and are available in different grades to suit your needs in an ideal manner. Just call us to schedule an appointment for our mobile services.

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