
Best Answer Evans X., 24 January 2023 - 01:24 PM
Greetings Chakib,
The environmental monitoring program is to check the possible spore forming microorganisms. Propably you will not have problems with the general microorganisms (TVC or ACC or APC whichever term you are familiar with).
However, you could be exposed to mold spores and from my experience both in research lab and in food industry they can literally grow on anything you can imagine. Acidified, oily, hot or cold, full on phenolic compounds (which btw have antimicrobial properties), extremelly poor on nutrient content, with alcohol, on food industry wastes with extremelly high osmotic concentration, literally the list is endless, but you name it and you will find an example of molds having grown on that.
So the risk assessment should be more to determine how often you will check (even once a year) and not if you will or will not do it.
They could have explained it better to you, but in this case I am on the auditor's side.
Regards!
