Food and beverage manufacturers face multiple business and operational challenges all vying for priority, including lingering supply chain issues, labor shortages, hygiene concerns, regulation compliance, food safety, and inflation, to name a few. While there is no one answer to solve for all of these concerns, GP PRO offers efficient, food grade, and waste-reducing solutions that help improve hygiene, reduce the risk of cross-contamination, enhance the employee experience, and keep operations running smoothly on the production floor as well as in the restroom and break room.
Hygienic Dispensing
Proper handwashing and drying is critical to keeping employees and food safe, and one of the surest ways to help support proper hand hygiene is with touchless dispensers for paper towel, hand soap, and hand sanitizer. Touchless dispensers help improve hygiene by reducing the number of user touchpoints and the risk of cross contamination. In food and beverage manufacturing, this level of hygiene helps users meet the FDA Food Code guidelines on hand hygiene.
In addition, to help meet food industry standards, GP PRO offers the only touchless water-resistant paper towel dispenser certified by HACCP International, a mark that represents the very best in food safety. The enMotion® 10” Automated Touchless Water-Resistant Paper Towel Dispenser incorporates rubber seals and a closable hatch that help mitigate water penetration during high-pressure wash-down procedures and its associated risk of bacteria growth. By keeping towels fully enclosed and dry, the dispenser helps reduce the risk of cross contamination during production, wash-down cleaning, and hand washing procedures.
And don’t forget about touchless dispensers for single-use cutlery and napkins. These fully enclosed dispensers dispense products one-at-a-time, so users only touch and take the product they need—unlike cutlery in open bins and napkins in exposed stacks. And, according to GP PRO research, 69% of consumers believe disposable cutlery is more hygienic than permanent ware in break rooms or commons areas shared by co-workers.
Gentle, Effective Skincare
While proper handwashing is key to helping to remove germs from hands, frequent hand washing can lead to dry, chapped, and rough hands. For those working in food and beverage manufacturing, which requires frequent handwashing, GP PRO offers gentle yet effective E2-rated antimicrobial foam soaps and E3-rated foam sanitizers. These soaps and sanitizers are approved for hand and food contact after handwashing. They not only kill germs, but they are pH-balanced, dermatologist-tested, and infused with moisturizers, providing users with healthy, happy hands.
Sanitary Surface Systems
Surface hygiene is equally as important as hand hygiene in food and beverage manufacturing facilities, which is why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has established clear guidelines and regulations related to surface cleaning and sanitizing procedures. To help address rigorous surface safety requirements, GP PRO offers several portable, disposable wiper systems. One in particular, the Dixie Ultra™ Surface System is specifically designed to support sanitizing with quaternary ammonium (quat) compounds by combining quat-compatible disposable wipes and a refillable, portable bucket. The wipes consistently retain quat levels longer than cotton and microfiber rags. The bucket serves as a closed, one-at-a-time dispenser that keeps the solution and unused wipes clean and helps reduce the risk of spills, vapors, or contamination.
About GP PRO
Advancing hygiene and enhancing human health has always been at the core of GP PRO’s innovative thinking and is accomplished by partnering with customers to understand their daily struggles and developing and delivering hygiene solutions that meet their needs. In addition, GP PRO’s hygiene solutions can often also help reduce costs, enhance sustainability, and drive productivity. GP PRO products meet restroom, foodservice, and break room needs for a wide range of manufacturing and industrial facilities as well as office buildings, healthcare, foodservice, high traffic, lodging, retail, and education facilities in North America. To learn more about GP PRO’s solutions in food and beverage manufacturing, please visit gppro.com.
