Let the mop head soak for a significant amount of time before ringing it out and letting in dry in the sun. Be sure that you are storing your mop upside-down in a dry area. Keep the mop head elevated to prevent it from touching more dirt or anything that might be spilled on the floor.
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Your email address will not be published. Post comment. Even if you sweep or vacuum regularly, mopping is the best way to clean hard floors. A common concern about mopping is its effectiveness.
A dirty mop will just move the filth around the house and not clean the floors. However, a clean mop and good mopping technique will effectively remove grime and germs from the floor. With a few easy steps, you can keep your mop sanitary so that it successfully cleans your floors. To keep your house clean, you may want to consider mopping with two buckets. Keep plain water for rinsing in one bucket and detergent in the other bucket.
Start with the detergent bucket, mop the floor, and then dip the dirty mop into the rinsing bucket. Squeeze out the water and continue alternating buckets until the floor is done. If either water bucket becomes too soiled, replace it with fresh water and cleaning solution. Try mopping the bathroom last, or even using a separate mop for just the bathroom. These rooms are full of germs and can lead to cross-contamination if a dirty mop gets used around the house. Finally, although traditional mops are very absorbent and have good scrubbing capacity, you could consider a more hygienic flat mop as a potential alternative.
As far as I understand, the BRC7 standard makes no mention of this "suspension" requirement. If such material were free to download, my opinion might be different.
Offhand, i do not recall seeing this feature being routinely stipulated in general GMP texts, eg from 21cfr -. I agree with the micro. If a risk assessment regarding your implemented procedure, ie non-suspension, results in a negligible risk of cross-contamination, I think the NC could be challenged. Some organisations may have specific requirements in relation to other contexts, for example, SOPs concerning the reprocessing of product dropped onto the floor. Posted 07 January - PM. Our food customers that come to our plant to do audits have a mindset paradigms that is derived from working in an environment where there is water and food readily available to support microbial growth.
Their expectation has been that we do let any brooms, mops, etc sit on the floor. If any of these sit on the floor, especially if sitting in a pool of water, likely will pick up microbial contamination that will be spread the next time the they are used.
We even had one food customer who said during an audit that we had to store brooms and mops no higher than knee level. The explanation was that they wanted us to avoid a situation where an employee would brush against the broom or mop, pick up some sort of contamination, and then possibly transfer it into a machine or product. Posted 08 January - PM. Particularly in comparison to say containers used for food transfer.
Posted 05 October - PM. Posted 07 October - PM. Every place I've been in we have a designated area for mops and either hang them to dry, or leave them in the mop bucket with sanitizer. Mops do a great job in transferring bacteria and pathogens to different locations in the facility that may not be transferred.
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You cannot start a new topic Please log in to reply. United Kingdom. Posted 30 December - PM Hi I know its wrong and you will get picked up on an audit for GMP but why when you have used a squeegee on the floor and its not hung after us and lent on the wall but still in contact with the floor, why is this a non conformance?
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