IAFP announces cleaning and sanitation webinar series

The International Association for Food Protection announces three webinars, presented by the IAFP Food Hygiene & Sanitation Professional Development Group.

A $25 registration fee is required for each webinar.

Visit www.foodprotection.org/events/webinars/ to register.

On May 5, 2010 at 2pm Eastern time, Dr. John Butts, VP of Research, Land O'Frost will speak at the webinar entitled “Challenges with wet cleaning”.

This presentation will focus on wet sanitation of equipment requiring disassembly.

It will cover the critical factors of sanitation process control, principles of sanitary equipment design and sanitary facility design.

Investigative techniques such as the "seek and destroy process," "timed studies" and "swat team" sampling will be covered.

On June 2, 2010 at 2pm Eastern time, there will be a webinar entitled “Challenges and improvement opportunities in the cleaning and sanitation of equipment in dry food processing environments” by Jeff Kornacki of Kornacki Microbiology Solutions.

The webinar will address conditions that favor microbial growth and dispersion in the processing environment with emphasis on sites of contamination associated with food processing equipment.

Approaches to elimination of those conditions will be described as well as approaches that have been or could be considered to eliminate or otherwise control microbes isolated from such sites.