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Posted 16 July 2018 - 11:50 AM

Good afternoon, 

 

We receintly had our FSSC stage 1 audit and was asked for validation for our identified CCP Produce sanitation.   We are a catering facility and because many produce is eaten raw we have identified the sanitation procedure as a CCP

 

Problem is the Salad wash tablets containing Sodium dichloroisocyanurate only comes with SAfety data sheets,  Does anyone one have any helpful studies or references I can use for validation ? 



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Posted 16 July 2018 - 12:38 PM

You need to find a way to test for the amount of "free or available" chlorine regardless of the forum you're using it in. you'll need a titration kit or dip sticks to check the ppm of chlorine in your wash water

 

Validation studies won't work because the water you're using isn't the exact same chemistry and neither is the source of the chlorine


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 12:49 PM

Thank you for your comment. 

 

We do test the solution with Chlorine strips, this is according to the auditor not sufficient. 

 

We need to provide studies to show the effect  Chlorine has  on pathogens and contact times , the strips are just a verification that we are using it at the right dilution.   

 

I have found some articles but nothing really great, thought I would try my luck here to see if someone might have come across a good one. 

 

Thanks again 



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Posted 16 July 2018 - 12:59 PM

ok, so your pathogens are listeria, salmonella and ecoli?

 

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5071777/

 

https://academic.oup...1/4/289/4735151

 

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956713517302864

 

https://pdfs.semanti...376009f6fba.pdf

 

I hope these help


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 01:01 PM

This is perfect thank ! 

 

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