Christeyns Food Hygiene Supporting Anaphylaxis Awareness Week

Christeyns Food Hygiene are a premium supplier of business-to-business detergents and disinfectants specifically formulated to effectively clean and decontaminate production surfaces across the food, dairy and beverage industries.  As a family-owned multi-national company they have a strong family ethos and appreciate that their products and services are integral to the food safety management goals of their customers. 

Allergenic ingredients are a specific type of contaminant as they do not respond to two of the key controls they routinely employ to keep food safe; namely operating at chilled temperatures to reduce growth (which has no effect on allergens) and applying disinfectants to eliminate populations (as a non-alive contaminant, reduction via killing simply isn’t an option).  This key difference to other food safety risks presents a unique challenge to hygiene and decontamination activities which requires specific consideration. 

Christeyns’s range of formulated detergents are specifically created to safely and effectively remove soiling from production surfaces thereby allowing the contaminant to be removed. These detergents are targeted to both the nature of the food residue and the material of construction for the contact surface to avoid damage. 

Their field support personnel are all drawn from the food, dairy and beverage industries providing them with a perspective and understanding of the importance of controlling all food safety hazards – and allergens in particular.  They also encourage allergen awareness and management training amongst all members of the processing industry from board level to operative and everyone in between. 

This raising of awareness of the importance of allergens ensures that those producing our food are aware of the consequences of failure and this is achieved through formal training, e-learning solutions and supporting awareness weeks within their customer’s sites – none more so than “Anaphylaxis Awareness Week” 

Christeyns want all consumers to be safe, healthy and able to enjoy the widest possible range of products and so work hard to help achieve effective decontamination.