An overwhelming majority of visitors to TRSA’s exhibit at the recent International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) expo voiced support for a uniform service industry certification verifying laundry cleanliness—as opposed to laundry operators contracting with consultants or labs on their own to validate their hygiene practices.

IAFP members are food safety professionals in manufacturing and processing as well as consultants, vendors and academics in this profession. Regardless of their company or institutional affiliation, they endorsed TRSA’s Hygienically Clean Food Safety certification. Most of the 120-plus visitors to the exhibit interviewed by TRSA staff learned about the Hygienically Clean program for ...