Large volume food processing and preparation operations have increased the need for improved sanitary practices from processing to consumption. This trend presents a challenge to every employee in the food processing and food prepara tion industry. Sanitation is an applied science for the attainment of hygienic conditions. Because of increased emphasis on food safety, sanitation is receiving increased attention from those in the food industry. Traditionally, inexperienced employees with few skills who have received little or no training have been delegated sanitation duties. Yet sanitation employees require intensive training. In the past, these employees, including sanitation program managers, have had only limited access to material on this subject. Technical information has been confined primarily to a limited number of training manuals provided by regulatory agen cies, industry and association manuals, and recommendations from equipment and cleaning compound firms. Most of this material lacks specific information related to the selection of appropriate cleaning methods, equipment, compounds, and sanitizers for maintaining hygienic conditions in food processing and prepara tion facilities. The purpose of this text is to provide sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices. Sanitation is a broad subject; thus, principles related to con tamination, cleaning compounds, sanitizers, and cleaning equipment, and specific directions for applying these principles to attain hygienic conditions in food processing and food preparation are discussed. The discussion starts with the importance of sanitation and also includes regulatory requirements and voluntary sanitation programs including additional and updated information on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

This is the third edition of the Society of Dairy Technology's highly successful volume on Cleaning-in-Place (CIP). Already a well-established practice in dairy technology, CIP has become increasingly relevant in the processed food industry during the last 10-15 years, and the beverage industry has seen increased demands from customers regarding CIP verification and validation to provide improvements in plant hygiene and related efficiency. The book addresses the principles of cleaning operations, water supply issues and the science of detergents and disinfectants. Aspects of equipment design relevant to ease of cleaning are covered in a special chapter, as is the assessment of cleaning efficiency and the management of cleaning operations. This third edition features for the first time a chapter on membrane cleaning - a relatively new area requiring very specialised cleaning products and procedures. Useful data on fluid flow dynamics and laboratory test methods are also included in separate chapters. Authors have been selected from within industry, allied suppliers and academia to provide a balanced, leading edge assessment of the subject matter. Cleaning-in-Place is directed at dairy scientists and technologists in industry and academia, general food scientists and food technologists, food microbiologists and equipment manufacturers.

Excerpt from Principles and Practice, of Milk Hygiene In this book an effort has been made to present systematically, in concise form, the facts and principles which are of importance in the practice of milk hygiene and to describe how they may be applied in the inspection of dairy farms and in the examination of milk. The material has been obtained from various sources. Jensen's "Milk Hygiene," Savage's "Milk and the Public Health," Conn's "Practical Dairy Bacteriology," Swith-inbank and Newman's "Bacteriology of Milk," King's "Ventilation," Van Slyke's "Modern Methods of Testing Milk and Milk Products," Grimmer's "Chemie und Physiologie der Milch," RievePs "Milchkunde," Weig-mann's " Mykologie der Milch," Ernst's "Milchhygiene für Tierarzte," Sommerfeld's "Handbuch der Milchkunde," and Barthel's "Methoden zur Untersuchung von Milch und Molkereiprodukten" have been freely drawn upon, while articles by numerous research workers which have appeared in the various journals and official reports have furnished many important facts. To all of these authors and investigators due acknowledgment is made. The book is intended primarily as a text for students taking a course in milk hygiene, but it is the hope of the author that it will also prove of service to dairy inspectors, milk examiners, public health officials, dairymen, milk distributers, and others interested in the production of wholesome milk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.