How to Avoid Cross-Contamination in Multi-Species Pet Food Machines

Animals — like dogs, like cats — need to eat what is good for them. Jinan MT manufactures machines that produce food for various types of pets. It is of utmost importance that your food is clean and safe for them to eat. One way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to prevent something known as cross-contamination. This is when different types of food mix together, possibly making pets sick. Here are some ways to ensure that pet food machines don’t have cross-contamination.

Good Clean Machines

One way to prevent cross-contamination is to maintain clean machines. Cleaning protocols are guidelines for how to clean things. You want to be doing this every day to make sure that there’s no leftover food from the day before. Cleaning the machines with soap and water can remove germs that could sicken the pets. Jinan MT proposes setting a cleaning date to make the machine clean and safe.

Keeping Ingredients Separate

Yet another trick to prevent cross-contamination is to keep impending ingredients separate. Just as you store your toys separately from your brother and sisters, the pet's food ingredients should not co-mingle. Jinan MT advises to store the ingredients separately and only combine them in the machine to mix. That way the food won’t get jumbled and make pets unwell. You should also pay attention to what goes in the machines, so all pets are getting the right kind of food.

Sanitizing the Equipment

Cleaning the machines frequently is important enough; it’s also a good idea to sanitize them. To sanitize is to clean with chemicals that kill germs. Jinan MT recommends sanitizing wipes or sprays to wipe down machines once they have been scrubbed with soap and water. This extra step ensures that all the germs are gone and the machines are ready to make pet food. Through ensuring that the machines are cleaned in full, dog owners can be assured that their pets are consuming clean and safe food.

Teaching Employees About Cross-Contamination

Cleaning and sanitizing alone are not the only way to prevent cross-contamination. Workers who operate the pet food machines need to be trained in order to prevent the mixing of ingredients, according to E. Steinrücke. According to Jinan MT, educating employees on why recipes need to be kept separate and ensuring they adhere to cleaning rules is recommended. By making sure that everyone who handles the pet food machines is aware of how to stop cross contamination, pet owners can feel confident that their pets are given the best food there is.

Making a Food Safety Plan

Finally, it is important to have a food safety plan in place to prevent cross-contamination in machines that make food for a variety of pets. A food safety plan is a list of instructions on how to make pet food safely. Gao Jinan, MT — Develop a protocol that describes how to clean and sanitize the equipment, how to keep ingredients from mixing with each other and how to teach workers to be sanitary and avoid cross-contamination. Also, with a rigid food safety plan in place, pet owners can feel confident that they are feeding their pets food that is clean, safe, and not cross-contaminated.

Finally, maintaining pet food machine, and eliminating cross-contamination is very important to ensure that a pet remains healthy. By cleaning thoroughly, keeping their ingredients apart, cleaning their equipment, training their workers and putting together a food safety plan, pet food makers can assure the pet owners whose animals eat what they produce that they are eating food that is safe and nutritious. Jinan MT is committed to assisting pet owners produce the finest food for their four-leg companions and by doing so, cross-contamination in pet food machinery is avoidable.