Oct 22, 2020 | Health & Safety
Our pork industry is facing a potentially catastrophic event, African Swine Fever (ASF) is a real concern for Australia and our livestock. African Swine Fever threatens our entire Pig population, the disease is highly contagious and spread virally with a staggeringly...
Oct 9, 2020 | Health & Safety, Science & Technology
Smoked Salmon processing has inherent risks for Listeria contamination for many reasons. These include the fact that fish enter processing with naturally occurring contamination and that there are many opportunities for cross-contamination. PhageGuard Listex can help...
Aug 12, 2020 | Health & Safety, Science & Technology
Hygiene in food plants is usually a tricky one, surfaces visually appearing clean and actually being clean at a microbiological level are completely independent, meaning one can occur without the other. Food’s biggest threat is at the microbiological level in the form...
Jul 22, 2020 | Health & Safety
In this week’s article, we will discuss how you can use the Hierarchy of Controls to facilitate your thinking and develop sound safety measures/controls to minimise the risk that your facility will have a coronavirus outbreak. The hierarchy of controls is a best...
May 7, 2020 | Health & Safety
It is no secret that this pandemic will cause and is causing a paradigm shift in many sectors, businesses and even economies. This situation is unprecedented – the global economy has never stood still, simultaneously, ever before. The good news, coronaviruses grasp on...
Apr 24, 2020 | Health & Safety
In this post, SGA will recommend the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) that should be worn for a preventative and reactive COVID-19 clean. The recommendations made will meet the safety expectations we expect from our staff if they were to be in the same...