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Posted 22 March 2017 - 12:42 PM

Good morning,

 

The production team are pushing me to be able to utilise a piece of equipment for cooked meat and raw meat. Starting the day using it for cooked meat and then moving over to raw meat.

 

I have listed several reasons to the production why this is not feasible and should not occur many of them people and process related. I would like to benchmark against what others are doing. Does anybody else have this scenario in their facility?

 

Thank you in advance,

Jenny



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Posted 22 March 2017 - 12:50 PM

Jenny, you would have to be able to validate this process against hazards for CFIA to grant you permission to do this. CFIA's objection will run both ways, but particularly how can you be sure it's clean after raw in order to SAFELY run cooked?

 

May i ask what the piece of equipment is?


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Posted 22 March 2017 - 02:28 PM

Hi Scampi,

 

It is a sealing machine, (Multivac Thermoforming). The film is new and this is technically the only thing that actually touches the food item. My concern is that the machine is in our 'raw meat' processing room. Although I can restrict the activity in this room during those packaging times, I am concerned that a person or piece of equipment etc. will easily create a cross contamination situation.

 

Thanks in advance,

Jenny 



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Posted 22 March 2017 - 03:04 PM

Hi Jenny,

 

Hopefully nothing like this -

 

http://www.bbc.com/n...-wales-11814600


Kind Regards,

 

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 04:20 PM

I would push hard Jenny...perhaps find more articles like the one charles posted and put it on managements desk OR you can run it by CFIA and then watch them scramble!  Use CFIA to your advantage where appropriate.  Do you have inspection daily/weekly?

 

The outside of each container will have been handled by personnel handling raw meat thus contaminating the rest of the machine


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