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Last November, Jeff Palmer, president
of DayMark® Safety Systems, testified
on food safety before the U.S. Senate
Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions. While he enjoyed
the opportunity to see government in
action, he notes, “Food safety can’t
be used as a competitive advantage.
We need to do a better job of sharing
technology and embracing best practices.
There must be an open-door
policy from restaurant to restaurant
and hotel to hotel to ensure a safe
food supply for Americans and ensure that we serve
the best, safest meals possible.”
The key to maintaining a successful HACCP
(Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) system,
Palmer says, is to make the program easy to follow.
And the best way to do that is with proper labeling.
There are clear benefits for the hotel or restaurant, its
employees, and its guests. Properly labeling foods in
compliance with food safety standards:
• Protects diners from foodborne contaminants.
• Supports “first in, first out” (FIFO) food rotation,
which reduces spoilage and food costs while ensuring
freshness and flavor.
• Reduces labor time and costs to label
and track food products in commercial
kitchens, which increases compliance with
FDA regulations.
DayMark offers a full line of products that
help make HACCP compliance fast and
efficient. Dissolve-A-Way® labels support
effective food rotation because each label
has a space to list the name of the product,
use-by date, and expiration date. The
labels stay put in the cooler or freezer, but
are gone in the dishwasher—they dissolve
in under 30 seconds and leave no sticky
residue, which can harbor bacteria on storage containers.
DayMark’s Timestrip™ is a food freshness indicator.
A removable adhesive strip that can be applied
directly to food packages, Timestrip is available in four
temperature ranges: ambient, fridge, freezer, and high
temperature. It monitors temperature and elapsed
time from activation, providing a visual alarm clock
that indicates when perishable items are no longer
safe for consumption.—ADK
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