TRSA President and CEO Joseph Ricci recently announced a new TRSA certification program for laundries serving food manufacturing/processing sectors. 
 
Like TRSA’s Hygienically Clean certification program for healthcare, the Hygienically Clean Food Safety Program emphasizes best practices for laundry processes and quality control practices that are verified through facility inspections and microbial testing of reusable textiles.
 
The laundry practices that the program will verify include washing procedures (e.g., detergent formulas, temperature, disinfectant, pH extraction) as well as drying, garment inspection and transportation. A certified laundry plant must follow an operational flowchart that maps these procedures ...