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Enhancing Food Safety with Proper Tool Care, Maintenance & Storage
Proper care, maintenance and storage of food contact tools is critical for ensuring a sanitary and code-compliant facility. In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of tool maintenance, the basics on how to properly clean and store items, and how to identify when it is time for replacement.
Why Tool Maintenance Matters
Tool cleaning and storage protocols are essential to food safety, compliance, functionality, and for maximizing your investment. Following the correct procedures can preve
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Jun 29, 2025
Ergonomic Cleaning & Material Handling: Why Tool Design Matters
Safety, efficiency and comfort are important factors when it comes to cleaning and material handling in industrial settings. Long hours performing specific and repetitive tasks have a physical and mental impact on employees. It’s critical to understand that tool design choice plays an important role in a workforce’s overall health and productivity. Investing in the right quality tools reduces injuries and increases productivity, offering long-term benefits to an organization.
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Mar 09, 2025
Make Color-Coding Your Resolution
Color-coding is a simple way
to have a big impact on your facility’s food safety, sanitation and compliance.
Designating certain colors for tools based on different uses, processes or zones
is practical and offers a host of benefits. It prevents cross contamination
from allergens, pathogens, chemicals, and physical contaminants -- improving
quality control and reducing risk of product recall and related issues. It also increases efficiency by helping with tool organization/storage, too
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Jan 16, 2024
3 New Color-Coding Options to Enhance Your GMPs/HACCP Plan
Union Jack now offers our most popular cleaning and food processing tools
in three new colors. Our FDA-compliant and hygienically designed
shovels, scoops, brushes, silicon bands, buckets /lids,scrapers and wall brackets are
now available in Brown, Lime and Gray. These 22 products are currently available
in the following 12 colors: Pink, Green, Blue, Red, White, Yellow, Orange, Purple,
Black, Brown, Lime and Gray.
There are currently no regulations requiring particular
color cho
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May 14, 2019