Processors must balance sanitation and safety. The perfect plant starts with the perfect floor.
The place to start when building the perfect plant is the floor. If the floor is installed poorly, designed improperly or constructed of the wrong materials, you are asking for trouble. Once the plant floor begins to fail, the costs for repair or replacement can be enormous. In addition, it is almost impossible to keep production running while making repairs. A damaged floor is almost impossible to clean and may be contaminated. Such a floor may harbor pests since cracks, pits and crevices trap food, especially in dry operations.