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Meet the guardian of the lineREQUEST A DEMO
3M™ Clean-Trace™ Hygiene Monitoring and Management System
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See beyond the surface with the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ Hygiene Monitoring and Management System
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When it comes to food safety, you’ve got a lot on the line. Using hygiene monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of your cleaning procedures is a critical aspect of an environmental monitoring program, which can help ensure the sanitary condition of your food and beverage manufacturing environment.
Keep things moving with the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ Hygiene Monitoring and Management System, now reengineered for improved stability and consistency. It’s a complete system that helps you optimize productivity, quickly prepare for audits and adhere to HACCP and FSMA rules.
Hygiene monitoring: featured studies and research
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When you make the high-risk decision to start food production, you need data you can trust. Unstable or inconsistent results from your ATP testing system could mean you start production when an area may not be properly cleaned or lose valuable time from unnecessary re-cleaning. This study compares ATP testing systems and evaluates the impact of time and temperature on the stability and consistency of results.
Hygiene monitoring webinars from 3M Food Safety
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Effective environmental monitoring programs can help extend product shelf life, reduce risk of recalls and costs and increase customer satisfaction and revenue. Join Dr. Martin Wiedmann of Cornell University for this 5-part environmental monitoring webinar series from 3M Food Safety. -
Every day, food processors, retailers and consumers are forced to throw out food due to microbial spoilage. This not only contributes to food waste and costly recalls, but can also damage a company’s brand reputation. Learn about food spoilage in this educational series from 3M Food Safety and Dr. Randy Worobo of Cornell University.
How 3M™ Clean-Trace™ utilizes ATP testing technology
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Microbes and product residue contain Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), an indicator of biological residues that can be easily detected to measure cleanliness quickly. Unlike other methods, ATP testing is rapid, sensitive, quantitative and simple.
To measure ATP using the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ System, a collected sample is mixed with luciferase, an enzyme from fireflies, which catalyzes a reaction. The energy from this reaction creates light that’s proportional to the amount of ATP in the sample — the more light detected, the dirtier the surface tested.
The ABCs of ATP (PDF, 73.48 KB)
Choosing the Optimal Photodetection Technology (PDF, 243.34 KB)
Hygiene Monitoring’s Role in Environmental Monitoring (PDF, 140.08 KB)
3M Clean-Trace ATP Monitoring Best Practice Guide (PDF, 681 KB)
How to assess risk in your facility
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When implementing hygiene monitoring test point selection for ATP testing in your facility, it’s important to analyze risk with questions similar to these:
- How significant is the hazard?
- How close is the surface to the food?
- What is the probability the hazard will occur?
- How hard is it to clean the surface?
Determining the number of test points to sample will depend on the physical size of the manufacturing operation and complexity or number of steps involved in the manufacturing process.
Get started quickly with these helpful videos. The 3M™ Clean-Trace™ Hygiene Management System software turns hygiene monitoring data into actionable information to help you find high-risk areas in your food processing facility before you begin production. Make critical decisions faster, create watch lists, stay audit-ready with scheduled reports and take preventative action.
Resources for hygiene monitoring and management
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