Current Good Manufacturing Practises/Food Plant Sanitation, 2d ed.

Dr Wilber Could is very highly respected in this field and has written six books and hundreds of technical papers and articles for trade journals. This, his latest work, covers all current good manufacturing practises as prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, as it applies to food processing and manufacturing. The book begins by outlining the various reasons for having good manufacturing practises and sanitation before guiding the reader through the CGMP's themselves. The book is well illustrated with practical charts, tables and plans and sanitation control guidelines.

There are a total of 23 chapters covering a wide range of areas which include the following: Type of inspections; Planning a plant sanitation programme; Equipment design for sanitation; Warehousing; Storage; Shipping and receiving; Food containers and packaging materials; Control of rodents; Control of insects; Food plant micro-organisms; Fundamentals of chemistry and cleaning; Food safety and hazard analysis; Making food plant inspections; Recalls, etc.