MSS MATTERS
Daily and weekly cleaning helps prevent this from contaminating pet food
What are harmful bacteria?
This harmful bacterium can survive on equipment, surfaces, and in production areas.
What is Salmonella?
What items in this location creates both food-safety and safety risks.
What is kibble. hoses, cleaning supplies, trash
This is what happens when a data sheet is not completed within its deadline and action was required by a user."
What is a Missed check?
Floors should be left in these two conditions.
What are clean and dry?
MSS checks confirm cleaning tasks are completed these two ways
What are correctly and on schedule?
After handling contaminated food or utensils, touching your mouth can cause this.
What is accidentally ingesting the bacteria?
Standing water can create these three injury hazards.
What are slips, trips, and falls?
When a warn or fail result occurs, this action is taken to attempt the check again after a corrective action has been applied."
What is a Retest?
Equipment should be clean and in this operating condition.
What are clean and dry?
Cleaning and sanitation are this line of defense against food safety risks
What is the first line of defense?
This agency warns that pet food can sometimes be a source of Salmonella infection.
What is the FDA?
Wet areas can increase the growth of this.
What is bacterial growth?
On the Quality dashboard, missed checks are highlighted in this color.
What is black?
Drains should be clean and free of this.
What is debris?
Effective sanitation protects products, pets, people, and the company asset
What is company reputation?
Remember it takes ONE RECALL to shut a company down!!!
MSS checks help show cleaning and sanitation programs have this quality.
What is effectiveness?
Poor housekeeping can spread contamination between equipment and production areas.
What is cross-contamination?
This is the key difference between a missed check and a cancelled check — one is unintentional, the other is intentional.
What is intent (or intentionality)? / What is the user's deliberate choice?
Work areas should be organized and ready for this.
What is inspection?
Consistent MSS checks supports regulation and these formal reviews
What are audit requirements?
Reducing contamination helps us produce pet food with these two qualities.
What are safe and high-quality?
Poor MSS can delay this for the next shift.
What is startup?
This button in the top-right corner allows you to attempt a missed data sheet again.
What is the Retry button?
Proper MSS demonstrates these two workplace qualities.
What are ownership and accountability?