Food Processing Uniforms & the VeriTEX QC™ Process
A cleaner and safer facility begins with clean uniforms.
Elevating Food Safety with Food Processing Uniforms and the VeriTEX QC™ Process
In the food processing industry, maintaining a clean and safe environment is not just a best practice—it’s an absolute requirement. The importance of preventing cross-contamination and ensuring food safety in these workplaces cannot be overstated. However, there are many challenges in keeping facilities hygienic. To help food processing businesses meet their compliance needs, Vestis utilizes its innovative, standardized and proprietary VeriTEX QC™ process for handling food processing uniforms.
Food Safety Starts with Employee Uniforms
Clean uniforms are the foundation of food safety in processing plants. Any compromise in cleanliness standards can have devastating business consequences like production line shutdowns. Food processing uniforms come with their own set of challenges, including the storage of soiled garments, special cleaning processes and prevention of cross-contamination during delivery.
Introducing VeriTEX QC™
Vestis recognizes the role it plays in ensuring food safety, which led to the development of the HACCP-based VeriTEX QC™ uniform laundry and delivery process. This service is a comprehensive solution designed to address the unique challenges associated with food processing uniforms.
How the VeriTEX QC™ process works:
- Pickup: Representatives from Vestis handle the pickup of soiled uniforms, keeping the sealed bags away from clean garments to help prevent cross-contamination and ensure a seamless transition in the laundering process.
- Laundry and Disinfection: The soiled garments undergo a thorough cleaning process, including sorting by color, fabric and degree of soil. Vestis uses EPA-registered laundry disinfectant.
- Handling and Inspection: Throughout the entire process, precautions are taken by garment sorters, such as the use of disposable gloves and hand sanitizer. A final inspection and quality control measures are in place to guarantee the highest standards.
- Delivery and Vehicle Maintenance: Clean uniforms are delivered with plastic covers to prevent cross-contamination during delivery. Additionally, routine cleaning and inspection of delivery vehicles ensure continued adherence to food safety standards.
Helping Your Team Remain HACCP Compliant and Beyond
End-to-end, our signature process brings compliance into focus for your business. We implement third-party internal audits of our HACCP plan, personal hygiene policy, pest control program and material safety data sheets (MSDS) for chemicals to ensure every part of our system is ready to support your compliance efforts.
Our uniform options and documented HACCP-based laundry and delivery process helps you pass the uniform section of Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-accepted programs and many other certification audits.
Vestis is Your Partner in Safety for Food Processing
Vestis doesn’t just provide uniforms, we’re a dedicated partner in elevating food safety standards for food processing plants. VeriTEX QC™ goes beyond a mere laundry and delivery solution. From HACCP compliance to quality assurance, VeriTEX QC™ helps make sure that your food processing environment meets the highest hygiene standards.