ATP Systems Help Put Clean to the Test

摘要

Since my first day as a sanitarian, I have been vexed by the question, "How clean is clean?" Throughout my career the answer to this question has been punctuated by differences of opinion among my public health inspection colleagues, particularly in evaluating food contact surfaces and citing them for not being clean to "sight and touch." Ve always viewed this standard as an aesthetic opinion: What is deemed clean to one individual may not be considered clean by another. If the point of making public health inspections is to reduce the contamination—or cross-contamination— levels of people, objects and surfaces in the food production environment, is it not our goal to ensure bacterial cleanliness.