Nutraceutical manufacturing facility sees 55% increase in first pass swab rates
Food & Beverage Processing
A production facility in Nevada focuses on nutraceutical manufacturing and food packaging. The sanitation team is meticulous in cleaning to ensure there is no cross-contamination of allergens for their facility’s food production line. However, their cleaning approach left them constantly needing to reclean their production line. Which was becoming a costly endeavor.
A production facility in Nevada focuses on nutraceutical manufacturing and food packaging. The sanitation team is meticulous in cleaning to ensure there is no cross-contamination of allergens for their facility’s food production line. However, their cleaning approach left them constantly needing to reclean their production line. Which was becoming a costly endeavor.
The Challenge: The manual intensive cleaning methods they were using for their production line were not getting the first pass swab rates they wanted.
“Our food lines continuously run allergen products that require us to swab frequently.” – Facility Microbiology and Sanitation Supervisor
They were then having to continually burn additional labor hours for recleaning.
Since they started their data collection for this production line in 2020, they had seen first pass rates range from 6% -26%. Well below their expectations and resulting in 303 labor hours spent on recleaning.
The total losses from needing to reclean their production line amounted to over $231,000!
The Solution: A Goodway® sanitation team member visited the facility and walked through a demonstration of the GVC-18000 heavy-duty dry steam cleaner. Showcasing the cleaning performance by cleaning a part, that typically would take an hour to clean, in less than 5 minutes.
“We continue to find new uses for the GVC-18000, and it has become a permanent fixture here at our facility.”
Facility Microbiology and Sanitation Supervisor
